051 - Gregory O’Gallagher From Kinobody
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1 hour and 58 minutes
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216.45453
Summary
Greg O'Gallagher is the founder of the Kino body brand, a personal training company that has been around since the early 2000s. In this episode of Playing to Win, we dive deep into how he built a multi-million dollar business at the age of 24, how he got started in fitness, and how he went on to become one of the most influential people in the fitness industry.
Transcript
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All right, guys, we're live for the 51th installment of the Playing to Win series, and I'm joined
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today by none other, Greg O'Gallagher from the Kino Body brand.
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I've, you know, I always like to chop it up with guys before I do one of these, and this
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We had like 30 seconds before I hit the live button, but I watched a few interesting interviews
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that you did in the last year, one on Pillow Talks.
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We're going to be talking about the ladies, if you're ready for some of that shit, and
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I want to talk about business and how you built your brand, and basically the whole premise
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and theme around the playlist is how, you know, guys are playing to win in life, because there's
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two ways, there's two distinct ways that I see men usually playing.
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It's either playing to win or playing not to lose, and I just want to get some clarity
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This is the sort of stuff that we're going to hit on.
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We're going to dive down a rabbit hole on Greg and what he's done with his life, because
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I mean, there's a lot of dudes out there that hit me up that are younger, they're 20, they're
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19, and that's when you got started, you know, building your Kino Body brand and what you
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did for yourself, and I think you're about 30 now, if I'm not mistaken?
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Yeah, and if memory serves, you hit your first million around the age of 24.
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24 was when I, like, banked first mil after tax.
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All right, and you're in Toronto, so you're a local guy, haven't had the pleasure of running
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into you yet, IRL, but how did you get started with, you know, self-care and monetizing, taking
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your shirt off, I suppose, is the best way to, you know, summarize it?
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You know, the thing to kind of state is that, like, I had a passion for fitness at a really,
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Like, literally 13, I was, like, already obsessed with the idea of working out, building muscle,
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doing push-ups, lifting weights, and so throughout my entire teenage years, like, working out was
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my passion, and something I was really, really obsessed with, and I would read all kinds
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of content, and so that actually, like, helped me.
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It wasn't just like, oh, I'm 18 or 19 now, I got into fitness last year, and now I want
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This was something that was, that I was always, always very into, and so at 19 years old,
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I felt very disenfranchised from university, from going to school, doing a program for four
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I wanted to kind of build my own thing, and the idea of building a business around fitness,
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This is what I really want to do, and I started personal training, but I just didn't, it didn't
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see personal, like, training clients every day just did not, was not fulfilling to me.
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I didn't see really, like, the big picture there, and I remember getting my first mentor,
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a guy named Rusty Moore, and he was building a fitness blog that was getting, you know, hundreds
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of thousands of visits a month, and he was an affiliate marketer, and he was actually,
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you know, building a six-figure income with his blog, and then that, like, that really
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I could create content on fitness and, you know, build traffic, build an email list, and
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then start to, you know, promote different programs or build my own, and that's, like,
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at 19, that's when I started Kino Body, and, like, I never went back from there.
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Like, why all the push-ups and, you know, the working out and the obsession with it?
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I remember, like, growing up, like, kind of watching movies with Arnold Schwarzenegger,
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Sylvester Stallone, Van Damme, and I just, I kind of saw these characters that were strong
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and powerful, and I wanted that, you know, I think as a kid, I felt a little small, and
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I wanted, like, I just, like, in my blood, I just wanted to be strong and powerful.
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I didn't want anyone to mess with me, so I think the initial driver of fitness was more
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so I could handle myself, so I could protect myself, so I could defend myself, so no one
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could even bully me, and it was never about impressing girls.
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The driver was kind of to feel like that role model that I was seeing in that movie.
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Nothing crazy, but just kind of a little bit, just, you know, just a little bit, and
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it just, like, I just remember just the feeling of it, just never wanted to feel like that.
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Like, I think some people can get, like, bullied, and they let it, like, for me, it's
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like, like, I have a chip on my shoulder with that, so, like, I, like, a little, a little
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bullying, I'm like, fuck it, I'm gonna go train, I'm gonna do whatever I have
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to do, I don't want to ever be in that position.
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Yeah, I think Schwarzenegger was what, you know, flipped the switch for me.
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When I saw him in Conan, I was like, whoa, like, that's, that's pretty impressive, right?
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It's, like, no homo, it was just, like, straight up, how can somebody look like that, and everybody
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else looks like that, and this guy's able to command that level of presence.
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I remember when I was, it was probably around the same age as you, and I was, I was, like,
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a little bit of a, well, I wasn't a little bit, I was actually a really scrawny kid, because
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I think around 12 or 13, I was about 6 foot, 6 foot 1, and I was maybe, like, 130 pounds,
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and my dad gave me this mail order, basically a pamphlet from when he got it, when he was
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in the Royal Air Force, and it was done by this guy called Charles Atlas, I don't know
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Yeah, no, Charles, he was one of the, like, early, kind of fitness figures.
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Yeah, like one of the originals, right, like the OG, and it's, like, you know, it was a
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program called Dynamic Tensions, and it was, like, you know, push-ups and chin-ups, and
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you'd, you know, if you wanted to build your chest, you'd, like, you know, put your hands
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in like this, or if you wanted to build your biceps, you'd go like this, right, and do,
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like, a curl, and it was a really interesting program, but it was just, like, I just went all
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in with it, too, man, it was, it was, fitness has always fascinated me, but, like, one of the
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reasons why I follow Greg guys is, I think I came across your stuff maybe, like, four or five
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years ago, and I saw this guy that was younger than me with a really good physique that was
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out there doing the work, getting really good reach and views on YouTube and Instagram, and
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then he started putting out these programs, and I always found, like, the stuff that you're
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putting out was entertaining, too, like, it wasn't just, you know, educational, there was
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a level of, like, there's a couple of produced videos that you did, Bruce Wayne one, there was
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another one, but, you know, like, American Psycho, I think, yeah, right, really, really
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good stuff, like, in fact, if you search for Greg's name on Google, like, you actually come
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up as a filmmaker, yeah, yeah, yeah, how did that happen, I did a little, I did a little
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executive producing in a film or two, and so, like, I got on IMDb and all that stuff, but
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nothing, I haven't done anything, like, anything, like, I, you know, big there yet.
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So, a lot of guys look at dudes like you, and they're like, oh, he's an overnight success,
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he got lucky, or they'll chalk it, you know, chalk it up as, well, you know, he inherited
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all of his money from his dad, because I know that your dad passed when you were younger,
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and he had a real estate portfolio, you didn't really have an interest in real estate from
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what I understood, and actually, one of the things I wanted to ask you about, because
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there was a note somewhere that I saw that you went to university, and you basically dropped
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out, because you saw the marketing strategies that they were teaching you was garbage, or
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not useful in the real world, can you talk about that a little bit?
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Yeah, yeah, I mean, I was on the fence about going to university to begin with, I wasn't
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sure if it was even what I wanted to do, I went to kind of, I got sucked up into the moment,
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with all my friends applying, and all that, and I went to school, and I just kind of remember
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sitting in class, and just trying to, like, just trying to figure out the ROI, like, I'm sitting
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in class, and I would say 10%, or 15% of the time, I'm like, okay, maybe there's utility
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to this, and then 80, like, at least 80%, I was like, this is not going to help me, this
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is not going to serve me in life, this is not going to help me build a business, make
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money, become successful, and so I'm just like, why am I pouring in four years of my life
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for something that's not directly going to help get me to my goal, and I, you know, I remember
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one of the computer classes that we're in, we're learning this out, like, outdated website
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development, that, that was pretty much obsolete at the time, and I'm like, this is, this is
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so dumb, like, this is, like, this is a complete waste of time, and I'm in class, I'm looking
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in the auditorium, okay, at university, you got, what, 150 people in an auditorium, everyone's
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coughing, they're coughing, like, every three seconds, and I have, like, misophonia, that
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stuff will annoy me, so I'm listening to all these people, they're sick, they're coughing,
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they're drinking all the time, they're playing Farmville on the computer, and I'm like, is
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this where I'm going to learn to become a multi-millionaire, and I'm like, this is garbage,
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and, and then I pretty much checked out for the rest of the year, and just kind of, just
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kind of did my own sort of self-study, and kind of went to, went through the motions, and
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kind of just, kind of got the, the different gears kind of moving, and I think a lot of people
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get, get swept up in the idea that they have to go to school, even though it's kind of
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in vogue to tell you, you don't have to get, go to school, they just can't handle the
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pressure of their friends, or family, or peers, basically, kind of telling them, hey, you
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need that degree, for me, it's like, man, life is short, we have one life, I am not in
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a million years, going to give away four years of my life, just to appease someone close to
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me, no, I'm going to do what I want to do, and, you know, I always had that self-belief
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that was kind of built and sharpened from training, that hey, if I want something, and
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if I set a goal, and I'm willing to work for it, I will achieve that goal, it might
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not be easy, it might not happen in one straight shot, but I will figure it out, and I will
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get what I want, and, and that sort of self-belief, you want, like, you need to have, if you're
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going to start a business, or kind of go against the grain.
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You must have got some heat from family for dropping out of university, how did that go
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do? Yeah, I got, I got, I definitely got some heat for the first couple years, and, you
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know, it, it, it was, it was, you know, it was kind of, I think, like, the idea, kind
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of what I put out, I was like, hey, look, I'm gonna, I'm gonna take a year or two to figure
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this out, and, you know, I can always go back to school, and I knew, like, I knew in my
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head, I'm not gonna go back to school, but yeah, there was a lot of flack from friends,
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from family, from my family friends, saying, like, you're making a colossal mistake, you
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know, everyone thinks they can go and start a online business, and, and make money, it's,
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it's, you know, it's not gonna happen, or, you know, you're gonna end up being a personal
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trainer, and you, you can't, you came from this very, very successful family, you're not
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gonna, you're not gonna be satisfied on a personal training salary, and, like, deep down,
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like, I want, this is my life, I want to do what fulfills me.
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We're gonna spend literally 60, 70% of our life in our career, in our job, so if you don't
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like it, you're throwing your life away, and, and I didn't even set out, like, my goal, when
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I got into the fitness online stuff, my goal was, I didn't care to, like, necessarily make
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tons and tons of money, I just wanted to do what I love, and have freedom, you know, freedom
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to kind of work where I want, freedom to, to, to run my business how I want, and my initial
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goal was basically, you know what, by the time my friends graduate, so basically, in four,
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three, four years, I want to be making six figures a year, online for my business, and,
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like, that way, you know, my, my, all my peers, they're graduating school, they're having to
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look for jobs, a lot of times, you probably know this, like, how many people graduate from
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university, and they're working a job, they could have worked without, without that degree,
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yeah, they're making my coffee at Starbucks most of the time, yeah, so I was like, you
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know what, they're going to be running around trying to find jobs, and I'm going to be making
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six figures from my online business, and I set that goal, and, and it happened, and, and
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again, it took a long, long time for my fam, for my family to kind of give me that green
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light of approval of what I was doing, like, I think I had to have, I think I had to be making
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millions of dollars, and have, like, 10 people working for me, for them to finally get
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it, but, but at first, like, oh, this is just a short-term kind of fad, or, wait, how are
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you making money, I don't understand it, like, like, like, what is this, like, my, my mom had
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to have literally her, like, family, friends, and lawyer, and be like, wow, what Gregory's
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doing is so impressive, for her to even, like, be like, oh, it is impressive, so, like, it,
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you know, it, it definitely, it definitely took a while, but, you know, it's, it's kind of,
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like, that, the thing is, is that, like, if, if, if you're actually meant to do it, you
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don't care, you don't mind the flack, like, if a little bit of your, if your family being
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upset, and, and, and telling you no, like, like, you want that, you need that pressure
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going against you, because if you can't handle that, you're not going to handle anything
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else, and I think in life, it's good to have kind of that opposing pressure, because
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it definitely, like, it, like, it, it, it makes you kind of, like, if, if everyone just
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tells you, hey, building a business is easy, and yes, you're going to start this online
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business, and you're going to make six figures in four years, and everything's going to go
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smooth, like, if everyone's telling you that, like, then you're going to have, like, you're
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going to expect it to go smooth, and when things get tough, you're just going to give
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up, like, you need people to tell you, hey, this is really hard, it's not going to work
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out, like, you're, you know, so I actually, like, respect that sort of pressure.
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How long did it take for them to come around, and, and, like, see that it was the right choice,
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and, I mean, a lot of times, what I noticed, like, even with my family, when I started my
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first real big business, when I was 30, it took a few years, and then people started asking
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me to hire them, you know, first, they were laughing at me, because of what I did, and then
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it's like, okay, you know, 12, 24 months, like, within a few years, it was like, so do you
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have an opening, you know, I've been watching what you've been doing, like, how long
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Yeah, and that's, yeah, so, I mean, the first, first few years, I think my friends and peers
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I went to high school with that were in university were kind of like, oh, man, like, what's, you
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know, what is Greg doing, like, he's, he's kind of like, like, they kind of saw, like, they
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kind of saw me kind of, you know, take that first step into, like, a, like, downward progression
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in life, and I would say, so I started in 19, I would say, like, like, things really started
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getting good when I was, like, 20, 22, um, I, I, uh, I think when I bought, like, my first car,
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it kind of, like, kind of changed the narrative.
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Um, so, I got, like, an, like, just an Audi A7, um, but, like, 22, it's, like, it's, at
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22 years old, it's, uh, it's, uh, you know, it's, it's, uh, um, kind of, like, a big purchase.
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Not too many 22-year-old kids are going, and, uh, and so, it wasn't anything crazy, like,
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it was, it was, you know, if I financed it, and it was, like, literally nothing, like, it
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didn't, it, like, it was, I could have done that way earlier, but just, just, you kind
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of, I think, like, with, with, with kind of people observing you, like, it's, there's
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certain, like, status signals that, like, trigger, oh, he's actually doing something, even
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if it's relatively easy to do, so I can, I could have lots of money in the bank, but
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no one's going to see that, but as soon as I go in and get a car, then it's, like, oh,
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shit, like, this must be really working out, um, and then, uh, you know, and then, like,
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I think, like, I think at one, like, one, uh, family dinner, you know, my, my, my, I
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was probably 21, so this is probably before I even got a car, but I was, I think I was
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21, everyone's at family, and then I come up in conversation, and then my mom is just
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like, oh, Gregory should be in university, what is he doing with his business, and then
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my, and then, you know, my, my, uh, like, you know, like, you know, what is your fallback
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going to be, and I was like, I don't know, the 100k in my bank account at the time is a
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pretty good fallback for now, um, and then, and then, like, then my
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my whole family was like, wait, what the hell, like, this 21-year-old kid's got 100k
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in his bank account, like, he's, he's doing something right, um, so, like, I mean, those
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are the kind of, kind of the first, first little, little, uh, glimpses, but, um, but
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I mean, you know, it's, end of the day, there's, there's, like, you know, Jim Carrey
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had a very, very, very good quote from his father, uh, where he's referencing his father,
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basically, where his father kind of took the safe route, um, worked kind of that, you
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know, worked that kind of job he didn't really want to do, um, and, and in the end, he got
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fired and was broke, and so, like, the main story is that you can fail at doing what you
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don't want to do, so, you know, you might as well go after what you want, and, you know,
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that's, that's the difference between playing not to lose and playing, playing to win right
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Yeah, exactly, so, so, I think, and then, you know, at 24, uh, you know, obviously, you
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know, when, when the business got to that certain level, um, then pretty much, you know, everything,
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everything, everything changed, um, and the Bruce Wayne video, and then kind of traveling
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all over the place, um, getting recognized, like, a ton, um, and, you know, just kind of,
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so, I'd say, like, really, like, kind of, kind of the seed was planted, like, 21, 22,
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but the first, first 19, 20, the first two, two and a half years, um, two, first three
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years, you're kind of going against, uh, you're kind of, you're kind of swimming against the,
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the current, and then, and then at the year four, uh, the kind of, the things kind of switched,
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and, and again, like, you have to, you know, the only person that matters that, like, believes
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in you ultimately is going to be yourself, and I'm a very numbers oriented person, and
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so, when I started my business, even if I was making 500 bucks a month, okay, you know,
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and that's, and that's one of the things that you have to do when you start a business, is
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that you have to have that discipline, where it's like, man, if you're accustomed to making,
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you know, more money doing a job that you kind of want to get out of, and you like going
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out for dinners, you like taking out girls on dates, you like doing these things, you like
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having a little bit of money to, to spend, and then you want to start a business, well, guess
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what, a lot of, for me, it took probably three, like, it took to make a normal full-time salary
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took about three years, so I, for those first three years, I, I was living very lean, I wasn't
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going out for dinners, I was cooking at home, I was staying in, I was not going out very many
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weekends, see, people think that I got money thrown at me by my parents when I was, you
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know, a young adult, and the reality is, is I didn't, like, all, I have, there's five
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kids in my family, we're all pretty, pretty grounded, and, and, and not, I'm the only one
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in my family of five that's flashy, that can do this stuff, we're all pretty, like, like,
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if I got cars bought for me, and a credit card connected to my parents' bank account
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at 20, I wouldn't have been able to work for three years making no money, I wouldn't,
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like, I, like, it would be too hard, like, I'd be like, why am I going to spend eight
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hours a day working on this online company to make, you know, maybe 500 bucks this month
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when I can go and drop 5k this weekend on my, you know, so I actually, so my, my, my father,
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before he passed away, I think he developed a very clear strategy to incentivize his kids
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to work very, very fucking hard, and then to help them out later in life with, you know,
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whatever, but, but the, his, his plan was always for us to be highly incentivized, because
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for him, he developed, he had got way more fulfillment, and fucking excitement, and happiness
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out of building his own business, than just having money, and the money was just more of
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like a, it's like a, it's like a little, you know, it's a sign of my success, like, yes,
00:20:11.140
I can go and have, build this incredible castle, or I can, you know, take my family on, you know,
00:20:17.520
do the, or buy this car, but it's like, once you, you know, it's, it's just kind of, it,
00:20:21.720
the, the, the journey, or the game, was really what lifted him up, and he didn't, he didn't want
00:20:26.100
to take that away from his kids, like he saw with many other rich families, where, oh, these kids,
00:20:31.160
Can you talk a little bit about how he incentivized, you know, you and your siblings to greatness?
00:20:36.360
Well, there was, it was all, it was all kind of, just kind of the way, you know, he, he lived his
00:20:41.540
life, there was nothing, no crazy strategy, but, I mean, he always, he always kind of, you know,
00:20:47.860
impressed, like, two things on me, you know, work hard, set goals, work hard, set goals,
00:20:53.640
this is my money, this is not your money, these are my buildings, these are not your buildings,
00:20:58.380
like, you need to kind of build your own thing, and, and the idea was basically, like, at,
00:21:04.980
at, in our entire 20s, we're, like, this is, like, we're, we're getting, like, we're getting,
00:21:10.080
like, yes, school paid for, help, whatever, but, but, like, you're, if you want to get a car,
00:21:16.240
you, you go buy it, we're not getting, giving you a car, right, and so, it wasn't anything,
00:21:21.420
basically, it's just, like, hey, if, if you're, you know, if, if, if you're a multi-millionaire,
00:21:26.560
and you have kids that are 20, you know, it can be tempting to want to, like, okay, let's,
00:21:31.100
let's, let's give him, like, it just, it just having a very, very strong, strong standards,
00:21:37.640
and kind of rules to follow, it's, like, no, you want a car, you got to buy it, and I feel like a lot
00:21:42.340
of people, like, that's the thing, like, you know, they want to, you know, they want,
00:21:45.560
and also my, my, with my mom in the house, like, she's, she's very unassuming, and so,
00:21:52.120
like, kind of grew up with, like, Mazdas and Acuras, Acura was, like, the, the nice car in the
00:21:58.160
family, if I wanted to get a cool car, I had, I had to kind of, to, I had to kind of make the money,
00:22:04.660
but, but that was pretty much, like, that was kind of my, you know, and that's probably the one,
00:22:09.640
that's probably the one, like, I, I get, I get hate, over the years, I've gotten probably a lot
00:22:15.760
of hate, and I don't care, because usually the more hate I get, the more money I'm making,
00:22:19.080
and you need that hate, like, you, like, if you don't want to go for it, but if you are marking
00:22:25.480
yourself, and you're polarizing, and you're getting tons and tons of attention, and tons of people are
00:22:30.140
connecting with you, some people are gonna, are gonna, like, get pushed the wrong way, and you're
00:22:35.280
gonna get some hate, so I actually have found that, like, you're doing things right, you're sucking
00:22:40.460
people in, and you're fucking pushing people away, you're putting your flags up, and you're saying,
00:22:44.480
this is who I am, this is who I want, this is who I don't want, but the, the only hate that bothers me
00:22:49.340
is that, like, oh, Greg got an inheritance, he couldn't have started his business without his,
00:22:53.920
without, like, you know, this and that, oh, like, yeah, he just had, the reality is, is that I started
00:22:59.820
my business lean, the first year cost me $500, and that first year, I made 10 grand, and I, I saved it,
00:23:06.480
and I, and then the next year, I, I, I made $30,000, and I, and I saved that, and the next year,
00:23:12.240
I made 80,000, and then the fourth, fourth year, I made 200k, and then the fifth year,
00:23:17.700
I made a million dollars before I spent one dollar on advertising, literally, and I barely
00:23:21.920
had employees, I had two people working for me that I, I, I gave them a little bit of a profit
00:23:26.460
split at the time, and so, like, I, I, I did it lean, I wasn't like, I wasn't like, oh, I need to
00:23:31.520
get 100k or 200k to start this business, and I need to do this, and I, I'm gonna run in the hole,
00:23:36.760
I actually built my company on, on, uh, doing organic blog content, YouTube content,
00:23:43.480
building my own mailing list, like, literally had no expenses, and then, and then I only started
00:23:49.180
spending lots of money on ads when I already, when I was already making a million, a million plus a
00:23:54.320
year, and then that's when things kind of started to kind of escalate a lot, but then people are like,
00:23:58.780
oh, you know, he must have had, he must have got millions of dollars, and then invested that in
00:24:02.540
starting his business, and hiring this marketing team, and then doing that, it's like, no, I started,
00:24:06.140
like, I even, the real start was when I was, like, 13, working out and reading all kinds of
00:24:11.780
fitness stuff. Yeah, there's no overnight successes, every overnight success I know of took
00:24:16.700
five, ten years to achieve that success, it's, it's not as easy, and I'm like, you know, to the
00:24:22.800
point of haters, and, you know, those of them that have watched me for a while have heard me say this
00:24:26.500
before, but I'll say it again, hate only ever comes from beneath, nobody ever gets jealous of losers,
00:24:30.580
right, so whenever somebody's spewing hate at you, it's usually envy, uh, envy driven, right,
00:24:35.600
because you're either, you look better than them, you're making more money than them, your girl's
00:24:39.380
hotter than them, you're driving nicer car, it's like, it doesn't matter what it is, it's usually
00:24:43.100
envy driven, right? Oh, yeah, no, 100, 100 percent, and also, I mean, here's what, here's what, here's
00:24:49.360
what I'll say, and I'll say that the more haters, the better, like, if the world is full of haters,
00:24:55.320
that the, it is a lot easier to succeed, because there's no one whose mental model is, is, is dialed in
00:25:04.280
more for failure than a hater, um, Eckhart Tolle has this really powerful quote, and I see it, I see it
00:25:11.740
so much, and it's that, it's that whenever you resent someone else's success, you curtail your own
00:25:19.240
success, if you want to attract and welcome success, um, if you want to attract success, you have to
00:25:24.800
welcome it wherever you see it, you know, when I saw Tai Lopez in, in, uh, 2015 popping off, okay,
00:25:31.600
when I saw Tai Lopez in 2015 popping off, I was at a dinner, and I, you know, and it was this mixed bag
00:25:36.280
of, of more fitness figures that were making money in the industry, um, and, and I think some of them
00:25:43.000
had definitely achieved some good success, but every, all of them kind of crashed and burned,
00:25:49.640
um, at this dinner, like, they pretty much all, maybe a couple still doing okay, but, but they
00:25:54.660
were just going on this freaking, they were just hating on Tai Lopez, all this guy, oh, what a
00:26:01.480
douchebag, he's, you know, he's got this rented Lamborghini, and this garage video, and they're
00:26:06.780
hating on it, hating on it, hating on it, and I was like, and I didn't even know who he was at the
00:26:10.700
time, I'm like, who's this Tai Lopez guy, and I, and I found the video, and I was like, this guy's
00:26:14.500
a fucking genius, holy cow, and I'm like, like, I'm seeing these ads everywhere, okay, this guy's
00:26:20.580
clearly making tons of money from these ads, you can't spend this much amount on YouTube if you're
00:26:24.940
losing money, and it's not, I always get curious when I see shit like that, I'm like, what's this
00:26:28.120
guy doing that I'm not doing, I know, I got curious, and I was like, I got pissed off, I'm like,
00:26:31.740
why am I not running ads, I'm like, this guy's running, I'm like, I can make a cooler ad, and that's
00:26:36.260
when I kind of made that Bruce Wayne video, and then that did very well for us, but,
00:26:40.520
see, that's the problem, see, once you start hating, you stop learning, and so if someone's
00:26:46.380
above you, and you start hating on them, oh, look how they're using a Lamborghini to market
00:26:50.420
themselves, or in their garage, or, you know, it's like, then you've thrown away that learning
00:26:55.560
opportunity, and again, I will say this, the more haters in the world, the easier it is for me to
00:27:01.980
succeed, because you're literally attaching, you know, an iron to yourself, you're attaching a chain
00:27:09.420
and ball to yourself, and again, if I was going through life, just hating on people, it just
00:27:14.440
throws you down, so I don't care, like, I don't care if, even if someone is, even if someone has
00:27:19.780
put themselves out there in sort of a bad way, but they're, they're usually, there's something to
00:27:24.340
learn from, you know, so you don't have to love everything they're doing, there's, there's something
00:27:28.700
to learn from, you know, even, even look at, look at, look at the past president, you know, I mean,
00:27:34.420
he did an amazing job at, but even, even, like, a lot of, a lot of talking about him today, they
00:27:39.680
still hate him on, on him today, but, like, you can't even, people, like, they, that's an extreme
00:27:43.840
example, if you can't, they're, like, free marketing, I always look at haters, like, that's
00:27:47.240
my free marketing team, they won't shut up about me, thank you, no, 100, 100%, and I've always
00:27:53.140
kind of had this little belief that, like, basically, no one is inherently all good, no one inherently is
00:27:57.480
all bad, and, you know, stupid people just kind of, they kind of live in extremes, where, oh, he's
00:28:02.780
terrible, and everything he does is bad, he doesn't have one good quality, whereas the
00:28:06.900
truth is always sort of in the middle, like, there's people with double-edged swords, no
00:28:10.080
matter how amazing or terrible someone is, they have, you know, different qualities, and
00:28:14.100
if you, you can't see that, then you're, you're going through life blind, if you can't see
00:28:18.340
that, you know, that this person who's a very heated or controversial figure has both
00:28:25.000
sides, and he's doing good things too, or he's doing, or this amazing, you know, if you
00:28:29.020
can't see that, you're going through life blind, and, like, no one should
00:28:32.740
listen to you, because you, you have no objectivity.
00:28:37.180
I mean, I see you with a Lamborghini Urus, and, you know, I see you in Lambos and R8s
00:28:40.860
from time to time, like, are these your cars, you rent them for, for shoots, or what's the
00:28:44.520
Some of them I own, some of them I rent, I am definitely, I'm probably not on the same
00:28:48.780
level of car guy as you, but, you know, I mean, growing up, yeah, like, I, I was obsessed
00:28:56.280
with cars and getting cars, and, and, and, you know, I, I, I've driven Lambos and McLaren
00:29:05.200
and, and pretty much almost everything, but, but I haven't, I haven't done enough, like,
00:29:12.860
the, I haven't done enough driving or racing or, or any of that, any of that stuff, um,
00:29:17.540
but, but, uh, but I'm, I'm, I'm into the, you know, it's, like, I, my favorite thing,
00:29:23.080
and this is what I'm going to do this summer, is, like, I, I am happiest, and I have the
00:29:30.280
Like, I, I am purely, I got, I remember I got the, I got a Jaguar F-type, um, convertible.
00:29:38.400
Yeah, that's a nice car, I saw that on your feed at one point.
00:29:40.840
Yeah, I got it in, like, what, when I was 24, 25, I had a Tesla before that, but I, but
00:29:45.980
didn't do anything for me, um, and I got the, the, the Jag F-type, and I, I just, I just
00:29:51.980
had so much fun in the summer, top-down, music blasting, like, driving.
00:29:56.880
I mean, the thing that, the thing that is in Canada, man, is, like, I can't, I, I gotta,
00:30:00.840
I gotta, like, tame myself, I, I'm, like, one ticket away from, like, you know, losing
00:30:09.980
So, so, I mean, the good thing about a rally, because I've done a few now, it's been a few
00:30:12.780
years that I joined, um, like, Toronto's largest supercar club is called Saturn's Drives,
00:30:17.220
right, and he does rallies, you know, throughout the summer, and sometimes in the fall, and I've
00:30:19.960
done a few of them now, and they're a lot safer than driving by yourself, because you're
00:30:23.840
in a group of, I mean, usually it's about 80, 85 cars that are
00:30:26.880
registered for the rally, and the cool thing about the rally is you're rolling with guys
00:30:31.020
that are driving the same caliber of car that you are, so it's a really good networking
00:30:34.620
opportunity, because it's a multi-day thing, you have dinners, drinks, you're shooting the
00:30:37.740
shit, you're causing havoc on the roads, obviously, and having some laughs, but, um, you know,
00:30:42.980
usually break off into groups of, like, a dozen, maybe two dozen cars, and you kind
00:30:46.460
of, like, you know, you follow the route, because you have a route on, uh, Waze or on Google
00:30:50.180
Maps, and because you're in such a large group, I've, like, almost nobody ever gets
00:30:54.320
ticketed, if you ever get pulled over, it's like, you know, the cops are pulling over
00:30:58.000
a bunch of cars, and they don't have time to ticket everybody, or they don't know, or
00:31:01.320
they can't, they can't get to who was the person that was infracting, plus if you run
00:31:06.240
anti-measures, like, uh, police scanners, and Waze, and radar detects, like, all kinds
00:31:10.700
of stuff, so, I mean, if you want, I'll send you some information about that in, uh, DMs,
00:31:14.620
but, uh, yeah, those are a lot of fun if you like cars.
00:31:17.140
Yeah, you know what, that could be awesome, that could be awesome to, uh, to...
00:31:20.220
We did one in, uh, Tremblant this, uh, fall, where we went up to auto, and then went over
00:31:24.000
to Tremblant back, and there's some nice hills and twisties and stuff, there's a blast.
00:31:29.700
Fall, um, I think, no, wait, that one was in August, um, they had to cancel the fall one
00:31:35.880
because of COVID restrictions, and I think, uh, Quebec was closing down again for some
00:31:39.400
reason, um, but, yeah, like, the last couple years have been weird, the, like, the wide open
00:31:43.860
one that we did down in the States was the best one, that was just before COVID hit, and
00:31:47.480
that was a five-day one with, like, almost 100 cars, it was, it was awesome.
00:31:51.620
You know, I'm definitely going to have to, I'm definitely going to have to de-join with
00:31:54.440
I think I'm going to try and get into, uh, this, this, we're going to get into, uh, you
00:32:03.380
Uh, I mean, let me see, I mean, I, I actually almost bought a Turbo S, uh, a 2018 Caprile
00:32:11.100
Turbo S, and I, I, I should have got it, because I probably would have, probably would
00:32:17.540
A buddy of mine's got an 18 with a tune, and, Greg, I'll tell you this, like, I was beside
00:32:21.660
him one time, and we were going to race, and I've got a 720S, right, and I'm like, you
00:32:25.440
know, and I'm not even going to race him, because he's got all-wheel drive, but I just look over
00:32:28.000
him as he pins it, and it's like, it's like, brake gas on these cars, launch control is so
00:32:32.260
simple, it's brake gas, and I'll hear, and he just pins it, and the front wheel, I'm not
00:32:36.720
even lying, like, it comes up off the ground, like the car wheelies, they just took off.
00:32:45.760
Yeah, you know, it's been kind of fun to kind of, like, even when I was, you know, when I
00:32:49.420
was actually 19, I started my business in LA, and I connected with a family friend, and
00:32:54.180
he had a, he had the 911 Turbo, and I remember, like, and my, my father, you know, his last
00:33:01.900
car was, you know, a Turbo, and I remember in, like, the 2002, 911 Turbo was 0.60 in, like,
00:33:08.120
four seconds, I think, maybe even been 4.2, it wasn't even the high.
00:33:14.360
Oh, they'll do it in two and a half seconds now.
00:33:16.120
Yeah, it's, now it's, like, now it's, like, two and a half seconds.
00:33:20.420
Like, you actually have, like, kidney pain now when you're accelerating in some of these
00:33:26.200
Yeah, the Urus, right now, obviously, it's the SUV, so it probably feels a bit different,
00:33:35.720
But, but, but, you know, like, for me, it's, like, there's, there, nothing hits different
00:33:41.660
or feels better than being in a sports car, dropping the roof, having, like, the sun and
00:33:49.060
It's just, to me, it's, it's, you're getting, like, a 10x experience versus being closed off.
00:33:53.920
That's, and that's at least, that's at least for me, I, I, I think everyone should, everyone
00:33:58.060
that's making money, that likes cars, should go and, go and rent a convertible for a weekend
00:34:03.840
just to see if, if, if, if, if it, if it does that for you, because for me, it's just,
00:34:08.440
like, I love the fresh air of being outside and just having the top down, driving up, you
00:34:14.560
It just, it's, like, it is such a, it's, it's such an amazing experience.
00:34:20.160
It's, I would, I would argue that it's the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
00:34:23.920
But, um, how, how useful are, like, you know, the hot cars and the hot women in your work
00:34:41.880
I think that even that Bruce Wayne video I did at the time, um, we used a Lambo in it
00:34:48.120
and, uh, and I had a, I had a girl in that video.
00:34:52.840
Um, it's, it's anything that can do two things, um, is going to like be a magnifier.
00:35:00.540
One, anything that can capture attention, Lambo's, uh, exotic cars capture attention.
00:35:11.000
If so, if someone doesn't know who I am and then they, they, they see this video of me
00:35:19.280
But if someone sees, sees me, it's like, wait, this guy's driving to the gym in a Lambo
00:35:27.740
So it's, so anytime you can kind of create curiosity, it kind of, it's, it's, it's very
00:35:36.400
Um, and, and, and it, you know, and the reality is, is that like, I, I kind of like, like my
00:35:44.500
belief with fitness has always been like, look, the end goal isn't just to like, let's just
00:35:52.380
It's like, people want the lifestyle and that's kind of how I've been marketing myself.
00:35:55.460
It's like, look, I, I, I, I don't just care about fitness.
00:36:01.460
It kind of, it's, it's the background of my life.
00:36:05.760
But like, I, I always, you know, it people, a lot of fit, like when I got into fitness,
00:36:11.460
Rich, like a lot of, a lot of fitness figures were just kind of just getting way too sucked
00:36:17.560
into fitness and, and, and being in the gym, like literally all the time, like sacrificing
00:36:23.460
themselves to get, to get to, to, to get on stage and do shows and pose with other men.
00:36:28.720
And the whole idea and like honor was just in, in like sacrificing your life, sacrificing
00:36:33.900
your, your social life and putting all your time, energy and attention into your body.
00:36:38.880
And to me, I was always like, what is the point of that?
00:36:45.920
I've, I've built this amazing body, but I have no life.
00:36:48.500
Isn't the point to like build this amazing body to have a better life.
00:36:52.620
And now it's like more like, so my belief has always been fitness should be a force multiplier
00:36:56.720
in your life where now you like, you can, you look like a Greek God, you have that energy,
00:37:01.940
you have that tenacity, and now you're dating life and your work life is going to be, is
00:37:11.220
So then when I go and I have models in, in, in videos or women in videos and, and sick
00:37:17.060
cars, it's me kind of honoring that where it's like, Hey, I want to have an insane body.
00:37:21.240
I want to have an insanely hot girl or like my 10.
00:37:25.100
And I want to, you know, I want to drive, you know, a sports car and pretty much just
00:37:34.200
And a lot of my followers, like they, they like it.
00:37:36.720
Like they, they, some people like kind of hate on all this guy's using Lambo.
00:37:40.680
Like when I'm, when I'm doing, when I'm, when I'm like getting a new wash or, or, uh,
00:37:45.840
kind of, you know, showing signs of success, it motivates them.
00:37:51.360
Um, and, and so I, but, but, um, it's also, but it's also one of those things where if
00:37:56.080
everyone is, is driving Lambos, it's obviously not going to, going to work.
00:37:59.400
I think like how, um, how useful is the, the cars, the physique, the attitude in your life
00:38:11.360
Cause I mean, you were, you were pretty much always in good shape from 19, from what I
00:38:15.100
understand, you know, the way that you described it.
00:38:23.300
Now people look at you and they're like, oh, this guy's got a blue check mark and a million
00:38:26.280
followers on social media and a big YouTube channel.
00:38:29.280
And I'm sure, I'm sure when you're out on a date from time to time, dudes will approach
00:38:33.480
and be like, oh dude, you know, your program saved my life.
00:38:35.560
And you're there with a girl and it's like, you know, automatically she's looking at you
00:38:40.860
Like, has that changed things for you a lot, a little, like how did that work?
00:38:45.440
So, I mean, yeah, I've had, I've had those moments and it, it, it definitely, definitely,
00:38:49.660
definitely can, can help, uh, um, a hundred percent.
00:38:53.920
I mean, if you even like, if you even had like a girl, like a few girls approach me and
00:38:58.960
while they were chatting me up, I had a guy like recognize me, take a photo with me.
00:39:03.120
And then they were like, they were pretty much like, they were like down for whatever.
00:39:07.360
Um, but I'd say, I'd say, uh, I think to me, like the, the cars hasn't been something
00:39:13.100
where like directly it's something where like, oh my God, like, um, I have this label now
00:39:16.780
and then, and then, uh, like I, I, I kind of like, like if a girl's too, if a girl's too
00:39:23.400
like hidden agenda or like, or clear like objectives, oh, I, you know, I liked him for
00:39:30.640
Um, but, but, uh, but, you know, I'd say, I'd say definitely like the, the, the having
00:39:38.880
a following, um, that is powerful, probably more powerful than just having a, having a
00:39:45.920
cool car and, and being in really, really good shape, man, like being in really, really
00:39:51.700
It's, it's like, if you are into, if you're, if you're into like getting girls or you're,
00:39:56.900
you're into, you know, meeting women, um, and you don't have your body dialed in, it,
00:40:02.960
it's, it is, it, it's, it's, that's the number one thing to do just because like, it's, it's
00:40:10.180
the number one thing to do because it's like, it, I mean, you're in great shape.
00:40:15.540
It's like, if you're kind of out of shape and you don't have your fitness handled and
00:40:18.900
then when you finally get to that, when you get, when you get to that place, when, when
00:40:22.160
things are about to happen and get physical, it's kind of like, it's way easier to
00:40:26.900
like, they're just like, if you're in awesome shape, it's, it's like, they, they're already
00:40:31.480
They're already in and things just happen way more effortlessly.
00:40:36.460
Cause I mean, I do a lot of coaching for guys and I mostly focus on high net worth individuals
00:40:40.960
now, but I used to deal with a lot of younger guys too.
00:40:43.260
And it's, and it's like, you know, they want to get the girls, they want to get the
00:40:46.100
girlfriend, they want to get the intimacy and all that sort of thing.
00:40:48.300
And it's like, you know, you look at them and you're like, okay, well, first thing
00:40:52.380
Like, you know, if, if, if somebody's sick, the first thing that you got to ask them to
00:40:57.680
do is you got to give up the things that created the sickness, you know, to begin with.
00:41:02.120
And in your twenties and even thirties to some degree, it's a lot easier to be in good shape.
00:41:10.880
And in my twenties, like I could, I could smoke a joint, eat a bag of Doritos, go to the gym.
00:41:18.860
As long as I worked out a little bit, slept enough and putting calories, the quality of
00:41:23.580
Now it's like today, it's a lot harder to look good.
00:41:27.100
Um, even like, even at my age, like I'm at on a therapeutic testosterone.
00:41:31.120
So I want to talk about TRT and steroids with you.
00:41:34.020
Um, also on the show, cause I know that you're natty, but, um, it's, it's not as easy as you
00:41:37.980
think, but when you're younger, it's way easier guys.
00:41:40.120
So get your body sorted at a young age, instead of trying to like reverse 20 or 30 years of,
00:41:46.040
of bad choices in your forties, when you can do it now in your twenties, it's not hard
00:41:51.060
Like it's, it really isn't like I did it as a teen, just doing a bunch of pushups and
00:42:01.400
And you know, I'd say pushups and chin-ups are still underrated.
00:42:04.500
Like they are really, really, really effective.
00:42:07.040
So question for you, if you had to pick one exercise that you could only do, what would
00:42:16.100
Um, one, you know, it's hard to limit yourself to one exercise, but I would say, I mean, if
00:42:21.900
I could just do one exercise, I'd say probably pushups would be your best bet because, uh,
00:42:27.300
you know, you're, you're getting some strong core stabilization in there and, uh, and you
00:42:35.640
And it, you know, if you do it, so I would pretty much do, I'd probably do feet up on
00:42:40.240
a bench, uh, pushups, but kind of going side to side.
00:42:44.200
Cause then when you go to one side, you're not using as much of, of, of the other arm.
00:42:48.160
Or if you grab like a basketball or volleyball for one hand and the other hands on the
00:42:55.300
I've noticed actually my chest looks like literally more developed when I'm actually doing a little
00:43:03.100
Um, I mean my, like, you know, like I'm, I'm very big into doing incline presses, weighted
00:43:13.100
Like, so there was like three that I would be like always kind of like key in the routine.
00:43:17.100
But if I just had to do one, I'd probably just like, just kind of be doing pushup variations
00:43:27.140
I mean, some people say, oh, if I was going to do one exercise, I'd just do deadlift.
00:43:30.460
But it, it just, it's not going to do much for your aesthetics.
00:43:35.200
I mean, I used to do, um, like with the Charles Atlas program, he's talked about doing, um,
00:43:41.680
And I think at some point I read something along the lines of try to get up to a, like, to
00:43:48.060
And I would do sets of like 25s and I would do 25 on the ground, 25 with my feet up on my
00:43:55.620
So you'd hit like incline, you know, level and then decline as well with all the different
00:44:00.620
And if you do 25 pushups, um, cause you've got four, eight, so it's basically eight,
00:44:15.120
And on that note, I, I noticed that there's an advantage of doing body weight movements,
00:44:19.500
um, compared to lifting a barbell or dumbbells.
00:44:24.880
Your hands, your hands are fixed to the ground and your body is moving towards and away from
00:44:31.760
And that pathway, it's actually easier to activate muscle, um, with a closed chain movement versus
00:44:40.560
It's actually harder to get, if you want to, you know, like the reality is, is that human
00:44:45.060
beings, we cannot actually, um, activate a hundred percent of our, of our muscle.
00:44:49.940
You know, the, the more you train, the stronger your nervous system gets, the higher percentage,
00:44:57.000
Um, but it, it's for most people, it's not even close to a hundred percent, but by doing
00:45:01.700
a closed chain movement, a pushup, you can actually activate more of your chest than if
00:45:06.780
you were to do, you know, dumbbells and you see this with, but this is exaggerated by beginners.
00:45:11.220
If you give a beginner dumbbells, they're like trying to stabilize it.
00:45:14.300
They have no idea what they're doing, but it's easier to apply maximum force towards,
00:45:19.800
you know, towards the ground when it's fixed than a free moving object.
00:45:24.020
And so I, I, I definitely find that you can, you can really, you know, really build muscle.
00:45:29.320
If you, even if you throw like a weighted back and then you do pushups and you get blocks
00:45:34.400
So, I mean, you know, sometimes we're like, oh, I can't get to the gym.
00:45:39.240
It's like the better thing to do is maybe today you can't go to the gym and the craziest
00:45:48.280
That way you're still building positive momentum and you're still, you know, you're still,
00:45:51.880
uh, still pushing your body in the right direction.
00:45:55.820
I'm going to grab a couple of these super chats here before we continue, but just, uh,
00:46:04.880
That's actually a pretty smart way to market your business.
00:46:07.740
He goes, although you're in Canada, I want to say happy Thanksgiving from the U S to you,
00:46:16.300
I've done the Greek God program and I'm in better shape in my thirties and in my twenties,
00:46:21.660
If you want to see a testimonials of Greg's programs, go to his Instagram and, um, he's
00:46:31.640
Um, I've probably sold a ton of, ton of programs for you.
00:46:34.080
Cause like every guy that I talk to, first thing that I do is I'm like get in shape.
00:46:42.940
The funny thing is the biggest piece of, uh, resistance I get from a lot of guys, Greg,
00:46:47.400
is they're like, Oh, well, I'm not tall enough to get, to get girls.
00:46:52.440
I'm like, you know, Greg's five, eight, like 180 pounds, you know, something like that's
00:47:02.660
So like, like you can throw on the muscle pretty easily.
00:47:08.640
Uh, same whiskey says, uh, most people fear success more than they fear failure.
00:47:12.480
You don't, I, I, some, some of the best guys I know that get the hottest girls are not
00:47:21.380
Like, like five, some, some of the guys, five, seven, five, eight.
00:47:25.260
I used to have this roommate in my late twenties that, um, was five, five.
00:47:28.540
We used to call him pocket Hercules just cause he was jacked.
00:47:37.920
Uh, Eric says as a man, uh, we're supposed to live, uh, wealthy and fit.
00:47:45.960
If, if, you know, if a guy is a shorter, he's five, seven, five, eight, there's going to be a
00:47:49.660
portion of girls that are just going to like, kind of be like, Oh, you know, I want a taller
00:47:56.580
Cause there's going to be like beautiful women that do not care.
00:48:03.340
Like he's got, I'm obviously the movie stars and stuff, but trust me, if they weren't, they'd
00:48:09.820
And what most guys don't seem to understand or want to accept is all that needs to happen
00:48:14.560
is she needs to be able to look up to you in heels.
00:48:16.780
So if you're five, six and you're with a chick, that's like five foot tall and two or three
00:48:21.240
inch heels, she's still going to be looking up to you.
00:48:24.900
I, I, I date, like I date girls are like five, nine, five, 10 and they wear heels, you know,
00:48:33.340
You know, um, yeah, let's talk about girls a little bit.
00:48:39.820
We've been chopping it up for about 50 minutes.
00:48:47.260
Um, what's your life like with dating right now?
00:48:50.640
Um, so, so right now, um, I've been, you know, I, I've, I've been single for a while.
00:48:58.520
Um, and I, I've, I've been pretty like, you know, for me, I've been pretty casual.
00:49:04.660
So I will, I will, uh, you know, it takes a lot to capture my attention.
00:49:10.080
Now, right now I'm actually seeing someone, um, but it, but it takes a lot to capture my
00:49:14.520
So typically most of the year, most of the time I will go on dates with, with different
00:49:21.020
women, maybe have a, you know, a few girls going on.
00:49:25.860
And, uh, and then, you know, if, if I'm not like crazy about a girl, then it's probably
00:49:32.500
going to, I'm probably just, it's probably just going to, we're going to hang out for maybe
00:49:35.400
a few weeks, a month, and then it's just kind of going to fizzle out.
00:49:38.720
I'm not, I'm not the kind of person that kind of keeps a rotation going on for a long time
00:49:43.480
just because I, I kind of, I'll get, I'll get bored.
00:49:46.560
Um, and I actually like, like even, even like a few months ago, I just, I was like, I was
00:49:52.880
Like I, I cleared out the rotation starting from scratch.
00:49:56.620
And so, you know, I, I, I meet girls from, from, uh, I'll meet girls from Instagram and,
00:50:01.880
and, uh, going out and, and, uh, Is that where you source mostly from, from Instagram?
00:50:09.540
Um, I dude, I, when I was like, when I was like really building my business at 21, 22,
00:50:14.920
like I, I was Tinder, like Tinder was like, just was insane, especially, I don't know,
00:50:21.220
like what depends on like the, I mean, back then it really depend on the city.
00:50:24.580
Cause that was when the Tinder was kind of beginning, but like in Toronto, Tinder was like,
00:50:33.280
Now I don't really do as much of the online stuff.
00:50:35.620
I definitely find like Instagram is better for finding like more, like the type of, it's
00:50:44.460
Um, but yeah, pretty much Instagram going out and, uh, and, and that's pretty much it.
00:50:53.000
I don't really, I think I've used hinge before.
00:50:55.060
Um, but nothing, nothing that like used to hinge a little bit.
00:50:59.760
I know you said that you watched a few of my videos, uh, last couple of days.
00:51:05.000
Did you get across any of the content that sort of explain, you know, arousal and desire
00:51:08.760
with women, you know, like the red pill sort of stuff?
00:51:12.780
I don't think I got into, into, into that a hundred percent.
00:51:16.040
Cause I mean, like what I'm actually known for is not, is not like doing these podcasts.
00:51:21.240
I like the whole reason why I started the channel guys is cause I liked hanging out with
00:51:24.500
entrepreneurs, you know, with fast cars and kind of mashing those ideas up and talking
00:51:29.060
But I kind of fell into the like women part of it.
00:51:32.560
And, and people know me, you know, cause I'm red pill that wrote a book called the unplanned
00:51:35.780
alpha and it's sort of, you know how you like fix guys' bodies kind of fix their heads.
00:51:40.940
So guys that have a good body that have a messed up head that are watching Greg right now
00:51:44.640
and you're not doing well with women, just watch my shit and you know, it'll come to you
00:51:48.120
or just read my book, but I'm just wondering how, how far through that you got.
00:51:51.640
Like, is there anything with women that have, that, that has, you know, surprised you or
00:51:56.220
shocked you or violated like any kind of beliefs that you had?
00:51:59.340
Cause I mean, like as kids were, you know, we're sold like a Disney esque sort of story,
00:52:05.240
And the prince and the princess, like, have you seen, I mean, you must've seen some stuff
00:52:08.360
that's been like, wow, I didn't know women were capable of that.
00:52:14.280
And I, and I probably was very similar to you where growing up, I had this, yeah, Disney ideal.
00:52:18.100
And, and women are fricking perfect and, and amazing.
00:52:21.800
And then you kind of, yeah, then you, then you, you know, then you kind of, you, you get
00:52:26.340
your reality checked in and, uh, what was your, what was your frying pan to the forehead moment?
00:52:37.420
Like if there was like necessarily one moment, I'm sure there was like, I'm sure I don't know.
00:52:43.900
I'm probably like dating the, dating the first girlfriend, whatever.
00:52:47.120
And, uh, and then, you know, kind of then like, you know, uh, first girlfriend and she
00:52:53.040
kind of just, uh, you know, she's talking to some other guy and the things get a little
00:52:58.000
Um, but, but you know, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's, it's very, you know, it's, you
00:53:06.680
kind of, you, you pretty much realize that like, if you're a high value man, you know what
00:53:11.040
you're doing, like women can get swept up and sleep with you like very, very easily,
00:53:17.980
but then make, you know, Joe wait till like month number, like after a month or two.
00:53:23.040
Um, that's like a kind of like a, that's kind of a realization that like a lot of guys when
00:53:28.000
they're more inexperienced, they like, they get like obsessed over a girl and they're like,
00:53:31.300
Oh, like, you know, and then, and then they get caught up, but they don't, they, they,
00:53:37.400
They don't know how she'll act around like high value man that kind of knows what she,
00:53:45.580
Um, did you ever have like a moment that sort of like red pill you?
00:53:52.640
I, I, I, I basically like, I basically, I think like I've, I've naturally been like, I've naturally
00:54:00.080
like deep down been like such a nice guy and like, and a good guy.
00:54:03.160
Like when I was young, when I was like, when I was young, even when I first got Tinder, I
00:54:06.620
felt guilty talking to two girls at the same time.
00:54:10.520
That's how much you figure out their phone is basically a box of dicks and they're talking
00:54:17.860
I was like, I was like, I had this little connection with this girl and like, we're
00:54:24.260
Like, you know, I shouldn't tell her I'm talking to another girl.
00:54:27.460
But then all these girls are talking to like so many guys.
00:54:30.800
And I just remember whenever I just, whenever I just kind of cut myself off from all other
00:54:34.640
women and was like, okay, like this is the girl I'm talking to you.
00:54:38.940
Um, things always kind of went, went downhill from there.
00:54:42.300
Like I just noticed, I just looked at the pattern.
00:54:43.920
I'm like, Hey, like if I, if I kind of get obsessed with this girl and then I stopped kind
00:54:47.640
of, I just put all my eggs in her back in this basket before we've started even, you
00:54:52.160
know, like in the beginning process, it always doesn't work out.
00:54:55.020
I always found that like, you know, not anymore, but when I was younger, I was like, I was like,
00:54:59.740
I was like, if I really, really like, let's say there's like two, like very, very beautiful.
00:55:04.460
Like I'm, I'm, there's some guys that just like, you know, cute chick is whatever.
00:55:14.660
Um, and so like, like some girls, like literally I'm just like, they light me up.
00:55:19.840
So like, I remember like, I had like two insanely, insanely beautiful, beautiful, uh, girls I
00:55:26.100
was, I was chatting with and, and, um, and like one of them, I kind of wanted more at the
00:55:31.060
I was like, I want her more and then didn't work out.
00:55:34.120
But then, then the one that was like insanely hot still, like that one worked out.
00:55:38.300
So it's like, you kind of, you kind of helps to have like a few going on and a lot of,
00:55:43.400
a lot of times the one you want the most is the one you'll, you'll mess up, especially
00:55:47.240
when you're learning and then you'll, but you'll get the second best.
00:55:52.700
But, but the moment I had that kind of probably, uh, the kind of like, uh, like woke me up was
00:55:58.260
basically when I was like, I've, I formed this connection with this, uh, girl here in Toronto.
00:56:03.220
We went on a couple of dates, um, hooked up a little bit and, uh, I was in LA, um, for
00:56:10.360
And like, I just, I, we just, we're FaceTiming so much, FaceTiming so, so much.
00:56:21.920
She's trying to do anyway, but she would nip like, you know, she would nip when I make
00:56:25.560
certain comments, when I'm just kind of being a man and making certain comments, um, she would
00:56:35.820
And I, and I was a bit of like a pussy at the time.
00:56:39.120
I was, it's kind of, I, you know, that's what happens to some guys.
00:56:41.940
I see them in the relationships and they get, they, they slowly get softer.
00:56:47.860
It's called, um, it's called pussification by a thousand concessions.
00:56:51.220
And that's, and that's also why I've loved being single.
00:56:53.640
It's a fucking, you just feel like a fucking man.
00:56:55.940
You fucking, you know, you do whatever, you know, it's like, it's, it feels good, you know?
00:56:59.480
Um, but so she, I, I let, I let her get, you know, again, I think it's important if anyone's
00:57:04.160
retracing their dating history, it's like, look, like, did she, no, I let myself kind
00:57:10.260
But anyways, like she, she was, point was that she was back, she had, there's a reading
00:57:16.760
And I literally flow, flew back to Toronto to see her, like book the flight, paid the
00:57:24.260
And then like, and then, you know, met, went to like meet up with her.
00:57:27.240
But like, when I got to Toronto, she was being super distant, went to meet up with her.
00:57:30.320
And then like, she literally like, and this is when we got very intimate emotionally.
00:57:34.020
And then she told me like, she, uh, she, uh, she told me like, she, like, she was, she's
00:57:39.220
being like really distant and like mean or whatever, like bitchy.
00:57:42.880
And like, and then she like, she's like, yeah, sorry.
00:57:44.880
I'm like, I got back together with my ex-boyfriend.
00:57:47.500
And, and then, but before that she, she mentioned something about her ex-boyfriend and I was like,
00:57:54.460
And she was like, Oh no, no, no, no, I'm not into him at all.
00:58:00.060
Come to like, she was like telling me to come to Toronto.
00:58:01.780
And then, uh, and then she fucking pulled that on me and I just, I just went home and
00:58:09.660
And then I was into her and I shared a lot with her.
00:58:11.840
And then she literally just, she, she told me that.
00:58:14.540
And this event, this hit me hard, like hit me hard.
00:58:18.340
And I just remember like fucking being so pissed.
00:58:21.980
And like, even still, even though all that shit, I was like, fuck, I wanted to see her.
00:58:26.240
And then I went on my computer, I opened Evernote.
00:58:30.640
And then I just got to that point in like half an hour.
00:58:40.920
It's almost like I hit a switch where I'm still in pussy mode.
00:58:51.220
And I'm just like, don't want anything to do with her.
00:58:53.560
But probably, I don't know if it's a week or two weeks later, send a text message.
00:59:13.820
Like the thing that motivates them the most when they misbehave is what's called a, it's
00:59:21.460
And a soft necks you usually do for a few days.
00:59:24.560
Women hate it when you take away attention, right?
00:59:27.280
That's when they lose their mind and they start writing the essays.
00:59:33.480
I was at a bar a year later and her sister came up to me and slapped me in the face.
00:59:40.100
She's like, oh, where did you do that to my sister?
00:59:43.900
I literally, this girl literally made me fly to Toronto, then said, sorry, I'm back with
01:00:01.660
She's flipping back and forth is what she's doing.
01:00:03.860
She's flipping back and forth, but also, you know what?
01:00:05.880
I made the mistake where I was entering her frame and I was kind of getting.
01:00:14.260
Dude, I, I, I, I'm into the, I'm into this stuff, man.
01:00:17.340
I, I, I, but frame, frame is like very powerful for, you know, really any, any social context.
01:00:23.720
It applies to business transactions, uh, you know, deals, customers, women, especially
01:00:30.080
Like when she's telling you what to do, you know, for example, like when you're on, you
01:00:34.040
know, the, uh, FaceTime, when you're in LA and she's like, oh, don't say this and don't
01:00:39.880
You know, versus like, I don't care what you think, you know, sort of thing, which is
01:00:46.240
And when you, and I really wish I knew this stuff when I was younger, like I didn't really
01:00:49.920
get my head fully around it until I was in my forties, but guys that are learning this
01:00:54.180
from me now as a result of watching my channel or reading my book, like, like they're really
01:00:58.180
doing a lot better with women in their twenties and thirties and they're not making the stupid
01:01:03.060
And certain, I've noticed this certain, certain women, certain, even beautiful women, uh, they
01:01:10.460
And one of the ways they'll test guys is they will try and take the frame from you.
01:01:13.840
Constantly, I've had this not too long ago where literally this, this girl, girl is
01:01:20.820
like trying to hold the frame, like no one else.
01:01:24.080
And, you know, in little ways and boss girl, was that one of these boss girls?
01:01:29.740
She was young and hot, but like, she was, she was all like taking the, the, you know, I'd
01:01:38.280
I was like, I was like, what you was like, you have very, very strong frame control.
01:01:41.680
I literally told her and it's like, what are you talking about?
01:01:44.000
I'm like, look, like you, like, you know, usually when I, when I'm out with women, they,
01:01:47.900
they try and be night, like, like effortless to hang out with their, their pleasant, they
01:01:52.220
go and like, you're, you just like to kind of be a little combative and standoffish.
01:01:57.220
And, uh, and I literally called her on it and I just kind of, just kind of just withdrew
01:02:07.160
So these like, like hashtag boss girls that you see out there, like I'm a boss, bitch,
01:02:12.500
It's like, these women are the worst to deal with.
01:02:16.040
They're going to want you to enter their frame.
01:02:17.840
They're going to put you through the beta tization through a thousand, you know, concessions
01:02:21.640
And ultimately she's going to turn you from the, you know, she's going to be like, Oh, look,
01:02:24.960
I'm with Greg O'Gallagher and let's have Thanksgiving dinner with my family.
01:02:29.360
And then she'll turn you into some beta bitch within like six to 12 months with all
01:02:33.160
that, you know, constant beating you down with the concessions that you make over and
01:02:37.820
So it's one of these things that a lot of guys sleepwalk through in life, you know,
01:02:41.360
when it comes to women and relationships, cause they do what, you know, you and I were
01:02:45.600
sold the bill of lies on, which is, well, just be a nice guy, you know, and everything
01:02:49.040
will work out and, you know, she'll be in your frame and she'll compliment your life
01:02:52.140
and she won't ever, you know, hurt your feelings or go back to the other guy, you
01:02:55.680
know, when you think that you're flying back to Toronto to be with her sort of
01:02:57.940
thing, it's, it's really, really interesting when you dive down at all.
01:03:03.580
I mean, you know, if, if someone off the bat is just kind of their, their operating
01:03:10.400
And that's probably not the girl that you should date.
01:03:13.460
Like I agree fully, but it, you know, it is really fascinating how, you know, how a lot
01:03:18.780
of, a lot, I think the biggest mistake that I, I think I see men make and that I've seen
01:03:24.080
myself fall into before is, is, you know, trying to, you know, like the only way to like
01:03:31.220
influence behavior in a positive way is basically just with your attention, you know?
01:03:35.700
And so, and, and so like, that's kind of the big connection that I've made.
01:03:39.640
Like sometimes girls will kind of, they'll be shit testing, they'll be taking the frame,
01:03:43.220
they'll be doing this, they'll be, and then they'll just try and like, they'll, they'll,
01:03:48.480
And like, that's not the, it's not the move to do that.
01:03:53.060
There's only, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's probably the most, it's very
01:03:58.980
Are you familiar with the concept of hypergamy?
01:04:03.100
Um, to a limited degree, not, not extensively, but.
01:04:07.680
All it really means is that a woman's gotta be able to look up to you and, and see that
01:04:12.460
you're the best guy that she can possibly get with, right?
01:04:15.260
So women date across and up on the socioeconomic scale.
01:04:18.440
It's why, you know, you're not dating, um, women that are equivalent to you or higher.
01:04:23.460
You're dating women that are on the socioeconomic scale, either at your level or below.
01:04:33.600
So, um, what it is essentially that they're trying to do is throw a competency test at
01:04:38.460
you, which is also known as a shit test to see if you're the best guy that they can get.
01:04:41.340
Like, you know, like, is this guy, somebody that's going to say no to me, right?
01:04:45.460
Like they want to hear no, they're never going to tell you, you know, tell me no, but they
01:04:49.520
No, they want to like get ghosted from time to time.
01:04:53.020
If they misbehave so that they can get put back in check, they'll never tell you this.
01:04:56.400
And you know, women watching this right now, or they'll say, Hey Greg, you know, I saw
01:05:00.300
He's full of shit, but you use it and you see it work.
01:05:04.480
Just watch how they respond to it is all I tell guys.
01:05:12.300
Like if you, if you look back historically at times when you put a girl on the pedestal
01:05:17.300
and just been available and, and you're like a celebrity, she's going to treat you like
01:05:24.060
Even if you're, even if you're fucking Brad Pitt doing that, you can even these, you know,
01:05:28.560
even these, these like, like even these, some of these huge celebrities that they have,
01:05:32.620
they have girls, like they, they're, they're, they're getting simpy for girls, not for some
01:05:41.280
I want to talk about, um, a little bit more back to the business than the self-care stuff.
01:05:45.820
Um, so right now your business is, is more or less tied into programs, clothing and nutritional
01:05:57.280
Is that, is that how, by the way, you DM me on Instagram?
01:06:00.560
Cause I normally don't get DMS from guys with blue check marks.
01:06:04.100
So I actually, I remember a good friend of mine, um, a good business friend of mine,
01:06:09.480
um, he actually mentioned, he mentioned you, uh, I don't know if it was a year or two years
01:06:14.940
He mentioned, he was like, Oh, this guy, entrepreneur, entrepreneur cars.
01:06:17.280
Like, it's like really got really fucking sick content.
01:06:20.180
Um, and I remember like, I, so I remember hearing about you back then.
01:06:24.940
And then, uh, and then just recently, I don't know, I don't know what I was watching on YouTube.
01:06:29.960
I think I just, I think I, I think I came into some, one of your content pieces.
01:06:33.520
I think some, some Will Smith thing, Will Smith, uh, I saw a video and I was watching
01:06:37.480
this video, I'm like, I'm like, and it, like, it's a white Henley shirt, right?
01:06:41.020
It's not like this crazy design that I can recognize, but I'm like, I'm like, that looks
01:06:50.580
I'm like, Hey, you know, well, I, you know, I picked them up because I'm always looking
01:07:00.040
I'm like, you know, that stuff looks like it fits properly.
01:07:02.260
So I placed an order about a year ago and I got some, some shirts and some, some of the
01:07:12.400
I'm not getting paid to say this guys or anything like this.
01:07:23.500
Cause it's really nice stuff and it fits properly, especially if you have a good physique and
01:07:26.540
you don't have to spend a lot of money on clothes.
01:07:28.760
Like one of the great lies out there is, you know, with a lot of style gurus and yes, if
01:07:33.500
you don't have a nice body and you don't have, you know, this, that, and the other
01:07:36.800
thing style can move the bar for you, but you can put, I don't know.
01:07:44.460
I mean, like you can put a $40, you know, piece of clothing on somebody that's got a
01:07:47.780
good physique and you can look better than a guy that spent a thousand dollars on a tailored,
01:07:52.440
you know, shirt and pants or a jacket or something like that.
01:07:56.800
So can you talk a little bit about the supplement line, the clothing and the nutritional line
01:08:06.780
I actually, when I was 20 years old, I had people, I was doing affiliate for this other
01:08:13.660
They're working better than this program you're promoting.
01:08:17.800
And so I started, uh, creating fitness programs, um, first and, you know, we did, you know,
01:08:25.160
Greek guide, uh, now our flagship program is movie star body.
01:08:28.980
And they're basically like six month programs, nutrition and training to create a transformation,
01:08:33.640
to create a certain physique, um, with the fasting, the lifting, the different phases.
01:08:38.580
Um, and so that's always, that's been like the core business model.
01:08:41.700
Um, and then, you know, and then, uh, a few years ago I had the opportunity to start and
01:08:49.080
And, and really the, the mindset there was that there wasn't really a pre-workout that
01:08:53.500
I wanted to take most of the pre-workouts, you know, I couldn't sleep on mostly for the
01:09:01.940
That was kind of the first supplement that we created was, was actually the pre-workout.
01:09:04.880
I had the ability to create exactly what I wanted as a pre-workout and we created it
01:09:09.640
and it has like the L-phenanine, so you feel very calm and focused and it's just like an
01:09:15.060
And then, and then kind of the next kind of supplement I got really into was, uh, doing
01:09:18.320
like a, a collagen protein, uh, which is great for your skin.
01:09:21.660
Um, and then, so we did the collagen protein, then we made a little muscle building formula
01:09:26.140
and it's just a few key supplements that you take on my training, um, to kind of in,
01:09:33.360
And if nothing else, just taking the, the Octane and collagen, you got more energy, better workouts,
01:09:38.340
faster recovery, and you, you get the benefits of adding collagen to your diet.
01:09:42.580
And so it's two key supplements and that's been growing a lot.
01:09:45.660
We have thousands of people on our monthly subscription program there.
01:09:52.720
And it's, again, this all ties into like kind of building the life, you build in the body
01:09:57.500
The clothing line is it's, it's really kind of creating that the goal is to really create
01:10:02.420
So rich, you know, you, you've leaned down, you've got your body fat down, you put on some
01:10:08.820
You know, you go to target, you buy clothes and you walk around the street and no one,
01:10:13.820
people can kind of notice, but you're not really turning heads.
01:10:16.880
It's so it's like, it's like, if you build, if you're building the body,
01:10:25.680
And, and so in men, the strongest sign of physical attraction is going to be that
01:10:40.740
And it's even, it's even more powerful than your height.
01:10:43.700
So for guys that are not six foot one, they've done studies on this actually.
01:10:48.260
It's, it's so like the shoulder to waist ratio is the strongest sign of, of, uh, physical
01:10:53.100
So you built the shoulder to waist ratio, but now you're wearing clothing.
01:10:56.720
That's built for someone that is kind of built more like a rectangle.
01:10:59.980
And you don't, yeah, you don't really capture that.
01:11:03.040
And so the clothing line is really to kind of create that Hollywood effect where, okay,
01:11:07.580
Now we're wearing tailored clothing that can actually capture that proportion.
01:11:11.780
And now you walk down the street and you're getting compliments and people are looking at
01:11:15.100
you because you're actually, it's contoured to your physique.
01:11:18.160
And then, you know, when you throw on a pair of jeans, boots, leather jacket, Kino top,
01:11:23.700
Kino Henley, it's like, now you look like a movie star and it doesn't, you know, and
01:11:31.520
If you're in really good shape, it's so simple.
01:11:33.740
Just a cool, cool Kino shirt, some jeans, go, you know, get a, get a, you know, nice
01:11:42.740
And I actually, I actually recommend simplifying that go to your wardrobe, throw everything
01:11:48.820
That isn't like really versatile out and start from scratch.
01:11:51.660
And then, you know, you have your, you have your jeans, whatever you have, your, your
01:11:55.420
Henleys, your, your, your tops, your, your button down shirts, and just keep it simple.
01:11:59.680
So every day you don't have to think about what you're going to wear, like, boom.
01:12:02.880
Monday through Friday, I'm just going to throw on, you know, white Henley or black Henley
01:12:10.160
And then on, you know, and then it just, like you should, men should not be going into the
01:12:15.280
wardrobe, putting something on, looking in the mirror, going back and then doing that for
01:12:19.640
30 minutes, that is the opposite of what you should be doing.
01:12:25.740
What is, um, how did you come up with the name Kino Body?
01:12:30.600
So I actually, you know, I actually was very, I was actually very interested in the, you
01:12:35.920
know, I, I was very fascinated or curious about the pickup industry.
01:12:40.700
Um, I was, when I was a teenager, who did you follow?
01:12:46.220
So, uh, I, I honestly, I found mystery really, really, really compelling just the way he
01:12:53.840
talked and held attention and his little gambits.
01:12:58.760
Um, obviously, you know, for anyone, like anyone that listens, it's listening, like you
01:13:03.280
got to be able to like take everything with a grain of salt, uh, and not be, you know,
01:13:07.520
but, but I, I found them like pretty compelling.
01:13:09.620
Um, I think there's some other, there's some other people that I, that I, uh, followed.
01:13:14.400
I know I watched some RS, RSV stuff, but, um, but, uh, you know, and I read the book,
01:13:21.180
And so the, but, but, so long story short, um, I was, you know, I found that stuff kind
01:13:29.400
Some of that stuff, you know, you know, it was, uh, was, uh, was not like, it's kind
01:13:34.800
of kind of learn it, taking a few little pieces, but, um, but no, I, I honestly, I
01:13:40.060
think, I think the mystery was, was really, really cool.
01:13:42.120
And, and though, you know, and, and he was, he was, he was actually like six foot five,
01:13:47.400
six foot six magician wearing funky glasses going, he's, he's kind of a crazy individual,
01:13:53.000
but, but anyways, um, one of the key terms was Kino, Kino escalation, right?
01:14:02.020
So like physical touch between a man and woman.
01:14:03.740
And it's like, look, like if you could have, you could have the best conversation in the
01:14:07.000
world, be the coolest guy in the world talking to a girl.
01:14:09.320
But if there is no sense of physical touch, then the things are not moving into, into.
01:14:20.220
So like, it's like, you know, body, it's like a body that fucking looks fucking girl.
01:14:27.060
It's like natural, you know, like it's like when you, when you, when you, you know, when you get
01:14:31.060
that a lot from women and, you know, when you're talking to them, like they
01:14:33.720
just kind of like, like, I used to have women just like grab my chest and I'd be like, what
01:14:39.540
I, I, I get like, Oh, I get, like, I get that a little bit.
01:14:45.240
Um, I've also like, you know, like, I, like when I was in my twenties and I was, you know,
01:14:50.660
it was like randoms, like women that I used to work with and stuff.
01:14:56.780
It's like, you know, now, now we got this me too culture, right?
01:15:01.200
Back in the day when I used to work in the corporate world, you know, before I had my
01:15:09.780
I mean, they, you know, they still do that stuff and they, they get away with it.
01:15:12.680
Um, this is, it's that double standard, but you know, I, I definitely like that.
01:15:18.180
Like I've had that moment so many times when, you know, you take your shirt off and the girl's
01:15:23.700
Like what, like, um, but again, like I, I think like having, having the body dialed
01:15:29.040
in and being in really, really good shape, it just, it makes it so much easier for the
01:15:33.220
girl to, to like hook up with like, it's like, they, they, it just, it's, it's, it, it helps
01:15:39.760
Um, but, but, um, but so yeah, that was the, that was where Kino came from.
01:15:45.800
And also like, there was some really cool, like a lot of like German Kino translates to movie,
01:15:50.120
so movie body, movie star body, a lot of cool, like little, uh, connections with, with Kino
01:15:56.400
Um, but, but really it was like, really it was, it was like the time I started Kino
01:16:01.740
What was the fitness landscape was very interesting.
01:16:05.420
It was, there was, you know, people that wanted to just simply lose weight, but losing
01:16:09.920
weight was kind of just not, it was kind of for like average people just losing weight,
01:16:15.500
There was, uh, athlete training, which is, you know, super cool, but like that's
01:16:20.100
more tailored if you're a football player, whatever, basketball player.
01:16:22.960
And then there was like, simply like just getting big, just bodybuilding and getting
01:16:28.180
And so what was the problem with that was that no fitness approach spoke to me.
01:16:32.860
I was like, man, like, I was like, I was like just bodybuilding, eating 4,000 calories
01:16:37.320
and getting up to 200 pounds or whatever of fluff and puff is not, that's not the look.
01:16:45.200
That's not what's going to, that's not what I personally want, nor is that what like girls
01:16:53.520
And then, and then, you know, and so there was nothing spoke to me.
01:16:56.140
I'm like, you know, let, let me carve out a fitness philosophy where I'm going to build
01:17:04.420
And you see this with people, my programs, they get really, really, really strong where
01:17:08.400
they're doing a hundred pound pull-ups and they're incline pressing a hundred plus
01:17:14.980
I mean, I've seen a lot of the footage, like the video footage that you put out and it's like,
01:17:18.040
you can't fake that and some guys might argue, oh, well, he's on gear.
01:17:23.220
If you, if you lift properly and you feed your body, right.
01:17:26.400
And you train properly, like you can actually be stronger off gear than what you are on
01:17:32.740
Like I can tell you right now, like on testosterone therapy at my age, I can't lift like the same
01:17:39.300
Nat, but when I was his age, Natty, I definitely could.
01:17:42.260
But yeah, yeah, there's some research that like, basically your, your, your, your relative
01:17:48.200
strength, how strong you are, uh, relative to your body weight is, is, um, going on gear.
01:17:53.360
It's not going to help that much, um, for relative strength.
01:17:55.820
I think, uh, Greg Knuckles of strength theory, he had some cool content on that.
01:18:02.720
And again, like, you know, I, I try and I'm all about proof.
01:18:05.740
So I obviously showing my testosterone levels that can be faked and whatever, but I've shown
01:18:09.620
my testosterone levels four or five times in the full blood panel of LH, FSH.
01:18:14.900
And so it's, it's, you know, the numbers are very, they're always consistent within 10%
01:18:21.400
Um, and I've done my dexascans and, and I, I always tell, I tell my haters, Hey, if you
01:18:26.760
want to bring your girl over and fucking check out my package, it's fucking big fucking balls.
01:18:35.520
Would you, would you ever go on a TRT when you get older?
01:18:39.620
You know, I've, I've actually opened the conversation with, uh, with, uh, some, you know, fitness
01:18:44.180
guys that are like in their forties about this.
01:18:50.780
Um, what do you do like checking once a year or, uh, I'd say every few years.
01:18:55.440
Um, I've gotten checked when I was like 23, 25 and I got them checked recently.
01:19:04.540
Um, but when I got them checked recently, I was literally just, I was recovering from being
01:19:08.280
sick and so I don't know if they were, but like the, the recent test was around 600 and 605.
01:19:13.740
Um, but my, I don't like the jab recently around the same time that you tested it.
01:19:21.120
Like even like close, like within a few months.
01:19:25.580
Now I was just curious, cause a buddy of mine has been telling me that, you know, he's been
01:19:28.320
tracking some, some of his, uh, clients that have gotten the jab.
01:19:31.240
And if the blood labs are coming back close to the time of the jab, they're noticing like
01:19:35.420
a steep decline in the testosterone levels from it.
01:19:41.020
It doesn't, did, did he say that it bounced back or no?
01:19:48.400
I didn't go too far down the conversation, but I mean, I would imagine your body should
01:19:58.220
And so, you know, I, I've also hit that point right now where I will say I'm 30 years old.
01:20:03.680
I've been training, literally lifting weights since I was 13.
01:20:14.340
Um, and if I'm going to stay around 180, 178, like I've pretty much lifted as heavy as I'll
01:20:23.220
Um, now if I, obviously if I was on gear, um, I could probably.
01:20:28.220
You know, I could probably get stronger and build upon that.
01:20:32.160
But at 30 years old, um, I've definitely noticed.
01:20:35.780
You probably won't, you know, to be honest with you, you really don't get that much stronger
01:20:41.140
Like I've never used trend or any of the other crazy shit.
01:20:44.220
Um, I mean, you'd have to get into that to really get like the heavy strength, but
01:20:53.460
You're going to run into back issues, knee issues, shoulder issues.
01:20:58.960
I've, I've, you know, I've, I've, I've, you know, I've rep 315 for six, seven reps and
01:21:07.080
So like right now it's, it's, uh, but, um, but the TRT thing.
01:21:10.360
And yeah, like, so my, my kind of thesis or my lens that I view kind of fitness on is
01:21:17.180
really all about, um, optimizing for health and longevity.
01:21:22.580
And obviously like, you know, you want to function at a high level.
01:21:25.960
So, uh, the mistake I see a lot of men make is they're in their twenties taking gear, um,
01:21:33.080
and they're kind of shutting down their hormonal levels and they're, uh, a lot of guys that
01:21:37.660
asked me about taking testosterone in their twenties cause they get their levels checked
01:21:41.380
and they know that I talk about TRT and I have a chapter in my book about managing your
01:21:46.000
And I talk about TRT and as well, and I tell them all the same thing, do it naturally.
01:21:49.100
Like you don't need to touch testosterone until your body needs it.
01:21:52.460
It's probably not, you may not never need it, but I mean, like the time for that is probably
01:21:59.840
You know, I have, um, everybody wants a shortcut, right?
01:22:02.520
Like, you know, let's flip a switch and lose 20 pounds, you know, put a cream under your
01:22:05.980
eye and wipe away, you know, 10 years of aging.
01:22:12.460
If someone is in there, is at that age and, and, and they do it correctly and they bring
01:22:18.660
and under the guidance of a doctor too, I would add as well.
01:22:21.920
And it's like, you know what, that, that, that very well, like, I mean, a lot of CEOs, you
01:22:26.880
They're, they're, they're kind of getting that extra, extra kick.
01:22:30.880
He looks like a fricking cyborg in his sixties, right?
01:22:34.240
But so, I mean, for me, it's like, if like, don't do something that's going to age you
01:22:39.100
faster, you're going to take too much and shut down your hormonal levels.
01:22:41.840
It's going to mess with your, your, it's going to mess with your sexual function.
01:22:47.000
Um, but you know, I think, you know, I think Jordan, uh, Jordan Belfort openly talks about
01:22:54.740
What were your levels like before you went on TRT?
01:22:59.300
They were, they were mid upper, but I didn't have, um, like the same level of, um, optimization
01:23:11.780
And, and I just remember going to the gym and it's like, I'd be there for 10, 15 minutes
01:23:19.280
Like I'm, I'm here now, so I'm just going to do calves, right.
01:23:21.360
Just to say that I did something and I didn't have good productivity levels and focus, uh,
01:23:27.520
Like, you know, like the standard, like low T symptoms that started to happen.
01:23:31.020
And I wasn't low per se on the government tables, but the government tables, like it's
01:23:35.840
like when, like a kid can't dunk the basketball, then they just lower the net.
01:23:38.980
That's what the government's been doing, you know, with the tables.
01:23:41.400
So testosterone levels have actually precipitously declined over the last 50 years.
01:23:46.120
Actually, I think that if you haven't read it, you should check it out.
01:23:48.300
The guy's name is Dr. Anthony Jay and it's called Estrogeneration.
01:23:51.360
And he talks about all the environmental estrogens out there that are lowering, you know, testosterone
01:23:55.120
levels and how it affects you and all that sort of stuff.
01:23:56.860
I literally just found out that there's, there's pithylates or however you pronounce that
01:24:12.560
Dude, the tap water has estrogen in it because women are on birth control pills and they're
01:24:18.800
They can't like, they can filter out particles, but they can't filter out hormones.
01:24:22.460
So if you're drinking tap water out of a fountain, out of like your faucet, like if
01:24:26.700
you boil pasta, you know, with tap water, that's got female estrogen in it.
01:24:32.940
I have a, well, I, um, I drink a lot of this, which is a, uh, spring water.
01:24:40.180
It's called flow, but they have alkaline water and it's got collagen in it too.
01:24:43.620
Um, and I, I, one of my friends is one of the, uh, one of the investors in flow.
01:24:49.900
Um, so I, so I have like cases of that, you know, delivered every month, but I also have
01:24:56.440
It's a reverse osmosis and that gets out the, uh, estrogens out of the water.
01:25:01.140
I just drink sparkling water with glass bottle.
01:25:03.980
Guys make funny, you know, they call you like the San Pellegrino water guy.
01:25:06.800
Like I put it out on Twitter and somebody came out with me with like, oh, you're talking
01:25:11.140
And I'm like, I'd rather talk to the Jack meme guy than some dork.
01:25:13.880
That's like trying to sell some pickup artist class.
01:25:16.640
Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, no, those guys, yeah, those guys are, um, yeah, you know, and that's
01:25:20.820
one of the things I kind of realized is that as I got a bit older, I kind of, kind of saw
01:25:23.480
through all the, all the pickup artist guys and kind of realized that like, most of them
01:25:28.700
Like I was like, I don't have a leg to stand on and they weren't anything before they
01:25:32.520
figured out how to upload onto YouTube and go live and make up some shit about how to
01:25:36.000
get girls and they don't live it in the real life, you know, for the most part.
01:25:39.400
I don't think I don't, I'd be surprised if one of those guys dating life is as good as mine.
01:25:46.940
I mean, uh, you know, mine's, mine's great and I got a great check in my life, but, um,
01:25:50.860
yeah, you know, for the most part, most of the guys in there, um, you know, out there
01:25:57.220
I was going to say on the, on the TRT thing, it's like, that's also like, dude, like I
01:26:05.860
Like I'm, I'm, I'm having sex three times a day.
01:26:08.780
I'm, I am, I love waking up and like, and feeling that sex drive.
01:26:14.500
So when you go in eight times in your forties, you're going to be like, oh yeah, this shit's
01:26:24.500
Let's maintain my strength around here and just be lean and focus in my business.
01:26:31.500
Um, but, but you know, if, if I, if that, that's something, that's something where if
01:26:35.680
I'm like, you know, if I'm 36 or, or, or 45 or 48 and you know, I'm dating a young, hot
01:26:43.100
girl and I got to fucking get my shit going, I got to up my, up my game, then that's something
01:26:48.060
But I'm, I'm a very transparent person and I have integrity.
01:26:51.440
And so if I do anything like that, like best believe, like, yeah, I will, I will say that
01:27:00.300
What I don't respect is people that are taking shit and like lying about it.
01:27:07.860
I think actually you had a bout with some, with some, uh, dork down in, uh, I don't know
01:27:12.720
the U S somewhere Skywalker, something like that.
01:27:21.000
So, so the story was, is at the time I was doing lots and lots of paid advertisements on
01:27:29.600
Hey, if you want to build a body, like look, you want to get lean and muscular, swipe up,
01:27:33.480
And then, um, this guy who had a bigger following than me at the time, he was ripping me up.
01:27:41.620
And be like, look at this fucking loser, skinny bitch, like whatever, uh, uh, like selling
01:27:53.540
And then not too long later, you know, I had a few margaritas with, I was with a girlfriend
01:27:59.920
of mine at a few margaritas and the shit popped off again.
01:28:05.400
And you know, when you have a couple of drinks and you kind of, you know, you, you, when
01:28:10.480
the filters turn off a little bit and you kind of say what you're actually thinking, the
01:28:20.600
And the, the, the funniest part was like the, the, a couple, just a couple months ago
01:28:25.440
or no, it was, it was just a matter of months ago.
01:28:28.700
I, I was in LA, this girl DM me, she was actually pretty hot.
01:28:33.820
Um, and, and, uh, and we started hanging out that week while I was there and she, she was
01:28:41.080
She was like, she was like, bring up her ex-boyfriend.
01:28:43.020
She's like, Oh, I gave this ex-boyfriend, whatever.
01:28:47.640
And I was like, so then like, I was like, Hey, who is this guy?
01:28:50.980
Um, and like, she was saying like, he was a little like psycho.
01:28:57.320
And, uh, she's like, Oh, I don't want to tell you.
01:28:59.700
Like, by the way, trend, trend tends to have that effect on your mind.
01:29:05.280
That guy looked like he was on something like that.
01:29:10.800
And he, yeah, he, he probably emotions were, were off.
01:29:13.740
Um, but so anyways, she, she kind of told me it was him.
01:29:16.760
And I was like, Oh, I was like, Oh, I was like, Oh, interesting.
01:29:20.380
And so anyways, so then fast forward when he, when he's talking.
01:29:30.240
She was actually very, very nice, pleasant, chill, chill girl.
01:29:34.260
So nothing to say, but, uh, she was actually very sweet.
01:29:37.060
Um, but so long story short, he's talking, he's talking shit about me.
01:29:48.540
I was like some like steroid bodybuilder hater.
01:30:04.840
So, so anyway, the best part was, the best part was.
01:30:09.900
The best part was is that I never, I didn't say his name at all.
01:30:19.640
And so my, my hate, my fault was the one telling me, Hey, this guy's talking shit.
01:30:24.160
For the keynote warriors, we're going to fucking end this.
01:30:26.320
And so, so we're going back and forth and he's just like, he's just like, Oh dude, like
01:30:32.340
Like, like no way my girlfriend would be into you, this and that.
01:30:37.500
And so I'm like, dude, I'm a, I'm a fucking man of my word and I show fucking proof.
01:30:41.560
And so I go back into my Instagram history story history and there's fucking, there's
01:30:46.980
little, little stories of me walking with her, of her getting to my land books.
01:30:53.700
And so I'm putting them in, I'm sprinkling in the little proofs.
01:30:57.240
Sprinkling the proofs and my followers are just fricking dying.
01:31:01.300
I do this little, it's still on my Instagram stories.
01:31:04.920
I do this little Instagram story about, I was like, man, I was like, I was like, John,
01:31:17.320
We're going to get you, we're going to, you know, we're going to get you off the fucking
01:31:21.020
We're going to get you on my Greek God program.
01:31:23.080
We're going to get you, you're smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
01:31:34.540
This is the first time I even like really referenced his name.
01:31:39.540
John Skywalker, you get 50% off and anyone else, if you guys want to use this, use the, you
01:31:49.280
And because literally, because like people love drama.
01:31:51.980
So because like my story views tripled, which is tripled because I was getting so much attention.
01:31:59.520
His followers were coming over and then they, they started to like, and so during this whole
01:32:04.220
thing, I'm fucking, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm fucking, I'm creating my new friend.
01:32:10.180
Now they're entering my friend because guess what?
01:32:17.060
I'm like, I'm like, John, where are your before and afters?
01:32:22.920
And so his followers come over to hate on me, hate on me.
01:32:25.040
And they're getting fucking, they're getting, they're getting into my shit.
01:32:28.580
And then they like, how much did you sell with that coupon code?
01:32:31.860
So it's like, I think very fast we did 10 K and then 20 K and then within 24 hours, we
01:32:49.640
He banged his girl and you made 130 grand, 130 K cash.
01:32:53.100
And he probably gave me some fucking new customer.
01:32:55.100
You got a bunch of followers in a, you know, bigger audience, right?
01:32:57.940
The point is, is that point is what's the moral of a story is don't be a hater.
01:33:04.660
I, I had no interest in starting, in starting shit or talking shit.
01:33:08.780
Um, but you know, in that, in that case, you know, that person, he had it coming.
01:33:17.840
I'm, you know, I won't take up more than two hours of your time.
01:33:30.560
Um, if you could have a dinner with any historical individual, um, less a family member, you know,
01:33:37.240
like your dad or grandfather or something like that.
01:33:38.640
If you could have a scheduled dinner with any historical person, who would you have dinner
01:33:44.500
The person that's coming to mind right now is, is Bruce Lee.
01:33:47.780
You know, uh, it's not like a historical figure, obviously, but I guess he's, uh, he's, uh,
01:33:55.500
he, he's no longer alive, you know, like he's no longer alive.
01:34:01.880
Um, you know, actually hard for me to say, but like, I just remember being very, very fascinated,
01:34:10.240
Do you think that Bruce Lee would be impressed with your physique?
01:34:16.260
I think he'd be, uh, I think he'd be impressed.
01:34:18.760
I think he, he cared a lot about like, like real strength, like strength with body weight.
01:34:23.800
Um, one arm chin ups, one arm pushups and, and being very, very incredibly hard to do,
01:34:31.260
Like I was still going to the gym before the COVID lockdown.
01:34:34.940
I'm like, fuck, if that Greg guy can do it, I'm going to try it.
01:34:37.040
And I like, I've like, I tried it for a good year.
01:34:39.620
Like I literally tried it on one of those assisted, you know, machines where you put the
01:34:45.240
And you know, I figured, okay, well, if I just, you know, drop a plate like every week or
01:34:48.580
two, then I'll get down to just body weight and just my arm.
01:34:51.100
The only way that I could get close, if I held my forearm like this, and that's how
01:35:09.780
Like, yeah, I need a lot of power to lift that weight.
01:35:12.500
If you're 210, it's, it's gonna, it's gonna be an uphill battle.
01:35:15.720
I don't do them often because it is a joint like golfer's elbow.
01:35:21.860
Um, but the clearest path, and I've had people in my program achieve it, especially
01:35:26.260
my, the body weight track of a movie star, but like the clearest path is get to the point
01:35:31.700
where you're doing weighted chin ups with 75% of your body weight for, you know, three,
01:35:36.880
So if you're 200 pounds, that's like 150 weighted for a triple for three.
01:35:41.840
And at that point you pretty much have the strength to do it.
01:35:46.260
And then all you have to do is really spend one to two months working on, uh, one arm
01:35:53.500
chin ups, but you put a towel around the, around the bar and you hold it, you hold the
01:35:57.060
towel here and you kind of just do one arm chin ups and you just do two sets of two and
01:36:01.500
you just, you try and use as little of the towel as possible.
01:36:03.820
It's not about doing sets of six or eight, just do two and hold it.
01:36:07.500
And here, and if you do that for a month or two, when you already have that pulling strength,
01:36:14.740
But anybody, my age or older hit it, like, you know, the one arm chin up.
01:36:21.060
Honestly, it's, it's, it's one of those things where it's like, it's, it's like, you're
01:36:25.840
probably better off just getting strong on the weighted chin ups, maybe doing some towel
01:36:29.140
And then if you want to go for one, I'm sure at once, but if you try and, if you're trying
01:36:32.560
to do weekly, like when I'm chin ups, you're, you're going to tear your elbows apart.
01:36:35.580
Um, it's, it's, it's so much stress on the elbow.
01:36:40.800
Um, but, but again, the point of the one arm chin up is basically, it's like the most insane
01:36:47.460
The ability to lift your body up with one arm is just like peak, peak strength.
01:36:55.240
Like I tell guys all the time, you know, when it comes to physical strength, I'm like, if
01:36:58.560
you can get to the point where you can do 10 chin ups, 30 pushups and skip rope for like
01:37:03.220
two minutes straight, you're basically in the top 5% of guys, you know, when it comes
01:37:10.140
Cause a lot of guys can't even do like a couple of chin ups.
01:37:21.400
10, 10 pull-ups, 10, 12 pull-ups is, is, is a solid level of fitness.
01:37:25.980
And, and I like to program more of the, the feet elevated, you can do like 20, 30 pushups
01:37:32.680
Cause it really builds more of that upper chest a bit more.
01:37:40.060
Cause I mean, you've got this, um, you got this thing in your backyard, a, a Bob, I think
01:37:44.080
they're, I don't know if they're coined Bob by the manufacturer, if it's just because
01:37:47.520
you, you called him Bob, like, how did, like, how did it come around that way?
01:37:50.760
Cause now it's known everywhere as Bob from what I've seen.
01:37:55.320
I think, I think like I, when I was a kid, I think that someone had it and I can show
01:38:06.560
I, maybe that was sort of like a little known thing.
01:38:08.860
And because I've been calling it Bob now, it's Bob everywhere.
01:38:12.220
I mean, you just beat the shit out of this thing.
01:38:21.660
We'll say, I think one of the brand, I don't even know.
01:38:33.900
I've, I've had some of them kind of the screws get degraded over time, but, um, I actually
01:38:41.800
I, I, what if, what if I punched two Bobs at the same time?
01:38:44.360
It's probably gonna, probably gonna catch on more.
01:38:47.100
How are they, how are they different from heavy bags?
01:38:50.280
Uh, so the different, I've had a heavy bag and I've trained on a heavy bag.
01:38:56.360
Um, I had a friend of mine, mentor of mine, you know, I think when I was 22, 23, uh, he
01:39:13.760
And he's like, no, he's like, literally it is one of the best things to train on.
01:39:18.720
Uh, punching the Bob, it will, it will do more for you in a, in a real fight, like with
01:39:29.200
And I, I have noticed that like, if you, if you're punching the Bob, you know, five, five,
01:39:35.200
10 minutes, a few days a week, like at first you're hitting it.
01:39:38.320
And, and, and even like, if you've done boxing training, you hit the heavy bag and stuff,
01:39:42.400
you hit like it, it, you still are fine tuning things.
01:39:46.100
Um, and like a heavy bags right here, you kind of like, whether you hit it here, here, here,
01:39:52.380
Whereas like when you're hitting the Bob, here's his head, his chin's right here.
01:39:56.000
And so your, your accuracy has to be kind of more laser focused.
01:40:00.520
And if you're kind of moving around, jump in, hitting him, his head's moving back.
01:40:04.660
And you have to, is it molded to have like the same level of like impact is what you
01:40:08.900
would with like somebody's chin, like the skull and the meat and all that sort of thing.
01:40:13.000
If you fucking, if, if, if the temperature is, is like cold and you bring them outside,
01:40:17.300
it, it, it, it feels like hitting, hitting hard rubber.
01:40:22.780
Well, yeah, it, it, if when it, when it was cold and it's hard, it's like, it's pretty
01:40:26.740
unforgiving, but I'd say normally like in the summer, whatever it's warm out, it is, it
01:40:34.360
So it's not as hard as hitting, as hitting, uh, hitting someone.
01:40:38.260
But, um, but even, you know, even like if you, if you punch someone and you land correctly,
01:40:45.480
Like you hear about guys breaking their hands, but like if you hit the right angle at the right
01:40:49.520
time and, and, you know, it, how did you get into boxing?
01:40:55.080
So it's like, I guess, certainly back to the beginning, like I, my initial desire for fitness
01:40:59.780
was more out of being strong and powerful than looking good for chicks.
01:41:03.500
And part of being strong and powerful was knowing how to, how to throw a punch and knowing
01:41:09.140
And, you know, I think I got into some boxing and martial arts from 14 to 17.
01:41:21.260
Um, I did, uh, a train with a martial art instructor that was trained in Jeet Kune Do and proficient
01:41:29.280
And I, uh, and then I did some, I joined a BJJ gym and I kind of trained a train in those
01:41:35.780
kind of three elements and I liked just the idea of, you know, I liked the idea of, of
01:41:41.580
I mean, when I was a kid, I, my, my older brother and I got into like conflict, like
01:41:47.300
So I wanted to, you know, I want to know how to fight.
01:41:48.980
And also like when you're, you know, if, if, uh, when you're, you know, if, uh, you
01:41:54.580
know, if you have to defend yourself, you're fighting and you get beat up, whatever, it's
01:41:59.860
And I found definitely, I found like in a real life situation, um, the problem with
01:42:08.080
a lot of martial arts, man, is that like, they try and teach you way too many different
01:42:15.520
And it's just like, just like when I was in university and like maybe 10 or 15% of the
01:42:22.540
I found that with a lot of martial arts, it's just like, it's like, I had to kind of stop
01:42:27.120
and just kind of in my head, I was like, what am I doing here?
01:42:29.060
Like if someone fucking, if I'm out and I get attacked never in a gazillion years, am
01:42:38.180
And so what I, what I kind of gravitated towards is literally, is literally learn how to fuck,
01:42:44.380
learn how to punch, like learn jab, cross, learn footwork, learn how to move, learn how
01:42:49.780
to, where to keep your hands and block, learn some clinch work, elbows and stuff and knees
01:42:56.400
and, and a little bit of wrestling and grappling and get as strong and powerful as possible.
01:43:02.780
And punch Bob, literally punch Bob, because there is a, there is in a real fight situation,
01:43:10.980
it's, it's not going to look like a, it's not going to look like a boxing match.
01:43:14.860
It's not even going to look like an MMA fight where you can kind of pick your punches, jump
01:43:19.080
in, jump out, you know, move around, come in, exchange and get out.
01:43:23.300
A real fight is just, it's like kind of two animals fucking locking heads.
01:43:33.080
I think there's might've been a sixth one, but I, I've been in a few fights.
01:43:36.520
Most of the time I was drunk and most of the time was at bars and, and it, it, it, it's
01:43:46.880
And the, the one thing, you know, the one thing I'll, I'll, you know, I'll say is like
01:43:52.060
when a real fight, like once it's on, you don't feel anything.
01:43:55.260
Like I, I, I was at a club, I was at a club in Toronto one night and I, I, I was very drunk
01:44:02.040
and I, I was with this girl that recognized, like this girl that I knew, she saw me and
01:44:07.280
I spun her around and when I spun her around, I did not realize that her heel hit someone
01:44:12.980
And so I, I, I, I put her down and all of a sudden this guy was fucking charging at
01:44:18.660
And I was like in my, in my head, I'm like, Oh, here we go.
01:44:27.060
Um, and you know, it's just like a switch went off my head where I'm like, this is like,
01:44:32.320
And like people holding back, I throw them off and like, he's coming at me too.
01:44:36.140
Like, and, and so me and him start, start, uh, start.
01:44:40.540
And he had his friends there trying to break it up.
01:44:42.380
And so I throw, I throw my people, my table back and me and him are going at it.
01:44:48.740
But now his friends are going like this friends were just trying to break it up.
01:44:51.900
But when they see us going at it and he's about to go down, then I have like three guys
01:44:55.860
punching me and those three guys in front of me.
01:44:57.780
And I'm, I, and basically point is, is in this story, like there's no fancy moves.
01:45:02.800
It's basically being in the right position and just, just throwing those hands and you're
01:45:08.660
You're not, you're not going to do a street fight, especially if like, you know, it's
01:45:15.140
But, um, but, uh, you know, and then, and then basically it, uh, the bouncers came in
01:45:22.220
And I just remember, I remember, uh, I remember, uh, like at one point I was literally had three
01:45:26.600
guys hitting me and I was fucking just right there and I didn't feel anything.
01:45:32.860
So I, and I, I was, uh, I was just like, I was just, I was like, I was like, I was like,
01:45:36.280
I was like, when I left the club, I was like, how the fuck did I not get hit?
01:45:41.880
And then I woke up and I went like this, every bone in my fucking face was hurting.
01:45:49.320
But, but I didn't get like, I didn't take like a, you know, I didn't take one of those
01:45:56.400
Um, but would you recommend the guys to learn how to fight?
01:46:02.060
I think it's, I think it is, it is in life as a man, you know, it's, you are going to
01:46:07.220
have those moments where, where not the moment I just described, that was stupid.
01:46:12.000
Obviously I was, I was, I was drunk and that happened.
01:46:14.320
But, um, and, and, you know, and I didn't, and I didn't know what happened.
01:46:19.040
Like, but basically like someone's charging me, so I'm gonna have to defend myself.
01:46:22.460
Um, but in life as a man, you are going to have those moments where, where, you know,
01:46:27.980
you have to, like, you have to, you have to know deep down that if this escalates and
01:46:34.540
becomes a physical confrontation that you can handle yourself.
01:46:37.300
If you don't have, it's like, it's like going through life playing poker with a fricking
01:46:44.740
It's like, like, it's like, man, if, if shit hits the fan, you, you got to fucking pop
01:46:51.200
I'd rather go through life with fucking pocket aces where absolutely you do not want physical
01:46:59.460
The risk is high is if, you know, if fuck man, you get hit and you, you fall down and
01:47:03.900
you hit your head, you're dead or, or, you know, or their friends come from behind
01:47:09.160
Or it's, it's the, the, the cost of, of combat is, is very, very high.
01:47:14.020
But again, like if someone's going to attack you, you don't have a choice.
01:47:17.160
And if you have to defend yourself or a loved one, you don't have a choice.
01:47:19.300
So you want to feel confident, you know, you want to feel calm.
01:47:23.800
And I've had that moment, even at a nightclub when I was at a table, I was with a girl and
01:47:29.820
And then, you know, some guy, like when I'm not paying attention, some guy comes behind
01:47:33.120
and starts chatting her up and, uh, and, uh, and I'm like, okay, cool.
01:47:39.280
And then I was just like, I was like, at that point I was like, it was time for him to walk
01:47:50.400
And he kind of kept chatting, trying to stay in there.
01:47:52.320
And I was just like, uh, you know, and, and he got, he got a little disrespectful and
01:47:59.520
And like, and then he, he waited for five seconds.
01:48:03.220
He looked in my eyes and my eyes said like, I will fucking rip your head off, dude.
01:48:08.940
But like, if I had no idea how to fight, I was scared about getting in a fight.
01:48:12.380
Like, I probably couldn't say that with fucking conviction.
01:48:23.060
He probably, he probably gets, gets, gets lots of girls.
01:48:25.640
Um, after, and like, and in those situations that you do feel like your fucking, your heart,
01:48:30.900
your, your, your heart kind of jumps a little bit.
01:48:33.780
Um, but, uh, cause like any, any time there's potentially something's going to escalate,
01:48:38.460
your adrenaline response system's going to kick in.
01:48:43.340
Like after I was like, I was like, I was like, uh, uh, you know, she, I, I asked her, I was
01:48:50.880
She was like, yeah, like, I think she was turned on a little bit.
01:48:54.940
There's a, um, there's a study that I think Google engineers did at one time.
01:48:59.540
And I think, um, you know, it's been quoted a few different places.
01:49:02.360
I also put it in one of the chapters of my book as well, but, um, they found that women's
01:49:06.340
search habits online for stuff that they're attracted to.
01:49:09.660
I think it was tied in a porn, if I'm not mistaken, um, where things around, um, surgeon,
01:49:19.320
I can't remember what the other one was, but basically like, like men that, uh, like
01:49:25.900
Like you've got to be dangerous as a guy, but you have to have a level of civility about
01:49:31.820
Like women want to be with a guy that knows how to fuck up shit basically.
01:49:34.740
So, you know, if shit hits the fan, they want to know that you've got the competency skills.
01:49:38.040
And that's why knowing how to fight and learning hand to hand combat is a useful skill, right?
01:49:43.640
Cause I mean, you know, it's, it's probably going to come into play at some point or another,
01:49:50.380
I mean, don't do it if you don't want to, I mean, you know, drink your soy and, you
01:49:53.320
know, play video games and do nothing with your life if you want, but I say do it.
01:49:57.280
And you know, the funny thing is that, uh, is that a lot of times the guys that run their
01:50:02.420
mouth and like are disrespectful actually don't know how to fight.
01:50:06.900
Like they overcompensate like guys that usually know how to fight and can handle themselves
01:50:13.000
and, you know, even really big dudes, they don't, yeah, they don't pick fights.
01:50:18.120
It's, it's the guys that kind of, that don't know how to fight that will have like, like
01:50:22.220
I've literally had, I've literally, I've literally had a, had a situation where, where
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I, I had three fucking frat guys trying to like fucking trying to get tough on me.
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And I fucking made them my bitches like they're like, it's a little, it's a cool story.
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But basically I got, when I was younger, I got pulled in, I got some, one recognized
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I was with my friend of mine who looked a lot older than me and these fucking assholes
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just fucking like, they didn't even just say, Hey, can you leave?
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They were like fucking pushing him, kicking him.
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I didn't even know this at the time, but he just texted me, Hey, come outside.
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And these three guys were fucking frat guys were hopped up and, and I, and they're like,
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Hey, get the, like, they're like, Oh, that's your friend.
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And I was like, I was like, dude, I don't, I got invited here.
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And the, the, there's three of them and the two of them got right in my face and I just
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And then, and then these guys were beating up my friend, literally like kicking him, like attacking
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And, and when I fucking put, hit them once each, just boom, boom.
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And then the third guy was kind of, he was kind of like kind of more standoffish and back
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And then they, their tune changed from fucking being tough guys.
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And they were saying like, they were saying like really offensive slurs, really offensive
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And, and, and their whole tune changed from the fuck out of here.
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It's like, you know, but again, if you're going to have to defend yourself, you have
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to know like the right necessary force one, one push, two punches, and they were completely
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like, they, they back down and you know, hopefully they, they learn their lesson.
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But like you get in trouble if you, if you, uh, and I told her like, look, like here's
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It's not even that you just didn't ask me nicely.
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When I said that, you just got right into my face.
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And I know that if someone enters my space, gets that close, they could easily, without
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me having time to react, elbow me, fucking choke me, do anything.
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So like, if you enter my space, I mean, like they could have a weapon, they could have a
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shiv, a knife or something like that when they're not close to you.
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They could, and they already look like they're a little bit like fucking screws loose.
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And so once they're in my space, I'm going to assume the worst.
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I'm going to think like, like something's going down.
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A lot of people, they don't have this, this sort of like mentality.
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Like I see two guys chest bumping each other fighting.
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It's like, dude, this guy could just elbow you and you're done and stomp on your head and
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So if someone enters my space, I am fucking going to fucking snap.
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And that's what having a Bob is really good for.
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If you have a Bob, it's like, you can stand right in front of it.
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And imagine things are going to heat it and stay calm.
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And then in a split second, you have to fucking create that fucking rage.
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And in real combat, what I've noticed is that like, it's, it's not like jab, cross, hook
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I think Paul Vunak, he was like a Jeet Kune Do practitioner, but he, he trained a lot of like
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the Navy SEALs and he would train them to like, kind of, okay, they're in this like,
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And then one, and then a split second, they go into like rage mode and they just go insane
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And that's what I try and mimic with Bob or I'll, I'll be trained with him.
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And then the stuff that goes viral is just me like fucking like, you know, just raging
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This guy, but I started out with Krav Maga and then I switched over to boxing.
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I mean, Krav's a good skill for disarming guns and knives and stuff like that.
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But I think that boxing is probably a lot more useful in the real world.
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Nick looks, Nick looks like he's been in your program.
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To Greg, what's it like being an aesthetic boss since the age of 15?
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What lessons do you learn having with genetic edge, sorry, having the genetic edge with the
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discipline over most for so long at this point?
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What lessons do you learn having the genetic edge with the discipline over the most?
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Do you think that you have a genetic edge over other guys?
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I mean, did you, did you grow muscle very, very quickly, like faster than the average
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Yeah, I would say I am genetically gifted for, you know, for strength.
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I, I'm very few men, even if they train correctly and right, like a small subset of men are going
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to be able to incline press 275 for five at under 10% body fat.
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If you like thing, the thing, the thing I'll say though, is that like those guys that look
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skinny fat or a bit chubby and they think they have bad genetics, but that's when they're
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Genetics don't determine how you look when you're doing everything wrong.
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It determines how fast you respond when you're doing things right.
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So I've seen guys that like you would assume I had terrible genetics.
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They start doing, they start to follow my nutrition training protocol and they make insanely
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But, but you know what, as a, as a kid, even in high school, like when you did gym tests
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and stuff, like obviously I worked very, very hard and I was very into it.
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And, and, and, but like, I, I, I was always like the top, top of the class in, in gym class
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Um, I like as a teenager, like I just, I, I wasn't obviously the biggest, but, um, I was,
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I definitely, definitely destroyed in fitness tests.
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So I, I definitely genetic wise, I, I am, but you know what's funny is actually I was very,
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Like I, I did very well at distance running, not as much on sprinting, but I've morphed
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my body to become more like explosive and powerful.
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Um, because that's what I, uh, I, I, I focus on.
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Did you ever follow like any of the old school bodybuilders like Tom Platz?
01:56:32.240
Um, I didn't really follow, like I, I kind of got in.
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I mean, like Platz was known for like massive legs.
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Like they were, they were out of proportion to his upper body.
01:56:44.120
And one of the things that he used to talk about was doing explosive sprints, like he
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would do like 50 meter sprints, but like a hundred percent power all the time.
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I don't think there's a, a, a harder leg workout in the world that are harder work, any workout
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in the world than, than probably doing a Platz leg workout.
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Like if you're, if you're doing repping, you know, wow, he probably was doing 500 pounds
01:57:09.660
So it's, it's, it's, it's pure torture, but, uh, you know, I, I'd followed some Vince
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Um, but, uh, no one, no one really, you know, I, I was, you know, I was actually really into
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this guy named Ross enemy, who, uh, who's a strength and conditioning coach for fighters.
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And he's in like insane shape is, is in like literally insane shape, um, with strength
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Well, let's, um, let's say goodbye to everybody.
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Um, where should people find you if they want to get more of your information stuff,
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I'd say, uh, the best place to connect with me is going to be on Instagram and that's at
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Um, and then as well, my website, Tino body.com.
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Um, those are the two places to check out, but I'm most active and engaged on, on Instagram
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And I got my programs and supplements and the clothing.
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Uh, guys hit the like button and, uh, we'll see you in the next show.