The NXR Podcast - NXR Livestream - Men’s Health Tips For Higher Earnings (w⧸DR. Chris Boettcher)

00:00:00 All right. We've got a vitally important episode for you today. The verdict has come back in. Here

00:00:06 are the results. You are fat, you are feminine, and therefore you are poor. Here's some studies. 1.00

00:00:12 We're going to be breaking it down over the course of the episode, but I'm going to whet your

00:00:16 appetite, give you a little bit of this right up front. Is muscle strengthening exercise associated

00:00:22 with better academic performance of literacy, mathematics, and language results from a

00:00:28 cross-sectional study. Here's some of the highlighted results. There was a generally

00:00:32 progressive increase in the likelihood of better AP of Chinese, mathematics, and English with

00:00:40 increase in days of MSE. Here's another study in regards to testosterone. Testosterone, risk,

00:00:48 and socioeconomic position in British men exploring casual directionality. Here's some

00:00:55 of the verdicts increase in log transform monthly earnings probability of being in work that is

00:01:04 being gainfully employed here's another study weight and wages fat versus lean paychecks we

00:01:12 show that being overweight and obese penalizes the probability of employment across all race

00:01:19 gender subgroups except for black women and men and we know why that might be an exception

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00:01:28 Here's the point.

00:01:29 The verdict is in.

00:01:30 We're going to be breaking all this down.

00:01:32 And we have a special guest who's going to be joining us in this episode today.

00:01:36 Dr. Chris taking his expertise on exercise, fitness, men's health, and how this correlates

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00:01:44 It directly correlates to ambition, to energy, to focus.

00:01:51 And all that translates directly to earning potential.

00:01:56 Your physical health, your vitality absolutely has a direct effect on your ability to be an ambitious young man

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00:02:13 If the Christian new right is going to win, if we are going to be successful,

00:02:19 If we're going to make a difference for our families and for the nation, then we must be high caliber men.

00:02:26 And there is no scenario in which you can be a couch potato with low T and high BMI and somehow still be successful on the front lines of taking back our country for Christ.

00:02:40 That's the focus today.

00:02:41 we're going to be giving you medical facts how it translates to ambition and earning potential in

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00:04:57 All right, here we are, and we are joined today by a special guest, Dr. Chris, and I'm not even

00:05:12 going to attempt to pronounce this last name. Chris, thanks for coming on the show. Can you

00:05:17 tell us how to say your last name? Yeah, absolutely. It's great to be here. Last name

00:05:22 is pronounced Betcher. Betcher. Great. Okay. Tell our listeners a little bit about your expertise.

00:05:27 how you got into health, the things that you've done, and make a little bit of an argument for

00:05:33 your credibility. Why should we listen to what you have to say today? Yeah, so I got my doctor

00:05:39 of physical therapy, went through the whole kind of traditional health care process and

00:05:43 indoctrination, for lack of a better word, and spent 10 years there and just recognized in the

00:05:50 middle of COVID, the system was failing way too many people. I had done a number of things on the

00:05:56 collegiate athletic side of things went on to compete and did 10 different Ironmans over the

00:06:02 course of about a seven or eight year plan and just realized that like I could do a lot more

00:06:07 for people outside of the system than I could in and so my brother and I who he's also a licensed

00:06:13 physical therapist as well we were kind of beating our heads against the wall back in 2020 2021 and

00:06:19 we just decided it's time to move on and so we established brother to brother and we've been

00:06:24 helping people provide structure, provide accountability ever since then to really make

00:06:29 tangible long-term impacts on their habits and their health as opposed to injections and long-term

00:06:36 medications. Awesome. Well, thanks for coming on the show. I think that's vital. It's important.

00:06:41 We're going to go ahead and show a few different studies here, and then we want to get your take

00:06:46 on these studies and then also have you just add to it whatever you have expertise that we don't.

00:06:51 And so I'm going to have Wes go over a few studies.

00:06:54 And Wes, you know, you say it from time to time, but it's, you know, like we always have

00:06:59 new guys who are tuning in who may not know it, but give a little bit of your background.

00:07:03 So I went to Columbia University for my undergraduate in biology, went to Texas for my

00:07:07 master's in public health, University of Texas.

00:07:09 And so I'm not the doctor that Chris is, but I've spent a lot of time looking at these

00:07:13 studies and also being able to parse out.

00:07:16 So a study will say something, for instance, but if you kind of peer a little bit closer,

00:07:19 you can say, well, hang on. I think actually this is conflating. This is masking what's really

00:07:25 going on. And a great example of this in this first study that I want to get into is the difference

00:07:29 between BMI and body fat. And so you look at some studies and they'll say, well, we looked at it and

00:07:34 the increase in BMI, which stands for body mass increase, wasn't associated with any difference

00:07:38 whatsoever. Or maybe it wasn't necessarily associated with the difference, for example,

00:07:42 for white males or for black females. Well, BMI versus body fat percentage is a huge distinction

00:07:48 that matters a lot. Body mass index is simply an index of the ratio of your height to your weight.

00:07:54 Now, as we all know, someone can be 200 pounds and someone else be 200 pounds,

00:07:59 but there'll be a massive difference between the two. All we're essentially saying is,

00:08:04 we know at this height and at this weight, a rough estimation, a rough index, rough ratio of them

00:08:09 will be 25, 26, 27. But that tells us nothing about muscle. It tells us nothing about body

00:08:16 fat percentage. It tells us nothing about health. Body fat percentage is a much better metric to go

00:08:22 off of. For men especially, women need a little bit higher actually, and that relates to fertility, 0.91

00:08:26 that relates to just their physiology. They're designed to have a little bit more. Men, if your 0.94

00:08:32 body fat is above 20%, you are not at optimal health. The body fat, adipose tissue, very much

00:08:40 so is pro-estrogenic. So your testosterone, it is not in an optimal state when your body fat is

00:08:46 higher. Body fat also increases your energy. Body fat increases the difficulty and everything that

00:08:51 there is with moving. And so one of the key distinctions with some of these studies that

00:08:55 we've looked at, here's a great one. We held it up initially, weight and wages, fat versus lean

00:09:00 paychecks. And there was some association, this one used BMI, not body fat percentage. There was

00:09:06 some association it did show hey as your bmi just this general ratio height to weight goes up

00:09:11 uh you generally earn less now this didn't hold true for black men and black women didn't and

00:09:17 held more true for professions with interpersonal relations so this is ones where you're interacting

00:09:21 with someone as you can imagine with coding probably if you had a desk job it's actually

00:09:25 we want coders that have a higher bmi but this is another study that shows something very similar

00:09:30 and shows it actually stronger.

00:09:32 So this is a 2010 study from Roy Wada,

00:09:35 Body Composition and Wages.

00:09:36 And I won't go through the whole methodology

00:09:38 and everything like that,

00:09:39 but listen to these results.

00:09:41 Our results suggest that a rise in body fat

00:09:43 is associated with decreases in the wages

00:09:47 of both white males and white females,

00:09:49 while a rise in the FFM,

00:09:51 FFM stands for fat-free muscle.

00:09:54 So this is your muscle mass.

00:09:56 This is your lean muscle,

00:09:57 while a rise in fat-free muscle

00:09:58 is associated with an increase in the wages of both groups.

00:10:02 These findings are in contrast to previous studies 0.84

00:10:04 that found strong evidence of a negative effect for white females,

00:10:08 but not always for white males.

00:10:10 And so the lower your body fat is, the more you earn, generally speaking.

00:10:15 We're talking in averages here.

00:10:16 The more muscle mass you have, generally the more you earn.

00:10:20 We saw this with academic performance in another study

00:10:22 that we highlighted in the intro.

00:10:25 Muscle strengthening exercises, the more days you do that,

00:10:28 is associated with a proportional increase in performance on academic subjects, performance on

00:10:35 languages, performance on mathematics. And the idea is that it's all tied together. Testosterone,

00:10:41 body fat, health, sleep, energy, they're all interconnected. And generally, a man especially,

00:10:47 women's health is a whole other topic. Women are different. Women have a monthly cycle. 1.00

00:10:52 Men have much more closer to a daily cycle. You look at testosterone, it rises and falls

00:10:57 on a more daily basis. Women's hormones, they fluctuate over and across an entire month. It's 0.98

00:11:01 an entirely different calculus. But for men, they're all connected. Here's another study. This

00:11:07 was a Harvard lab study. Financial risk-taking behavior is associated with higher testosterone.

00:11:15 The researchers found that men whose testosterone levels were more than one standard deviation above

00:11:19 the mean put 12% more than the average man into risky investments. So you look at men who take

00:11:26 risks financially. They invest in things. It's like, I don't know if a return's guaranteed.

00:11:31 You could put that in the S&P and get 7% per year. Well, men who have testosterone say,

00:11:36 I want to beat that. I want to do better. Men with lower body fat, men with more muscle,

00:11:41 they on average earn more. They're all connected. And so men who strive, men who achieve,

00:11:46 men who work hard. Oh, also look, they're not 100 pounds overweight. What a surprise.

00:11:51 All right, Dr. Chris, I want to give you ample time to respond to that. Feel free to push back.

00:11:56 if you disagree or flesh it out and give us give us even more so what do you think yeah i mean i

00:12:02 like what you said early on wes about the distinction between bmi and body fat percentage

00:12:08 i like to think of bmi as when you're looking at a collective population that is how it's being

00:12:14 kind of judged upon is it's easy for them to kind of put people in categories based on oh you're

00:12:19 25%, 30%, 40 on the BMI scale, versus on the body fat side of things, it really gives you

00:12:27 concrete information on an individual level. And so if you do have more muscle mass, you're going

00:12:33 to be able to, you know, you might, you might stand out on a higher BMI, but then you go and

00:12:39 have something like a DEXA scan that shows, yeah, you're at 16, 17% body fat, and you actually have

00:12:45 significantly more muscle mass than the average person who falls in that same BMI as you. So it

00:12:51 really does give you that opportunity to figure out where you are, as opposed to just like being

00:12:57 thrown into a category of individuals that it's you're just comparing apples to oranges for from

00:13:03 the average population in most cases. But I totally agree with the testosterone side of things. And

00:13:10 you start looking at mentioned the risk taking even like the creation of businesses and things

00:13:15 like that there's as we become more and more suppressed on the testosterone side of things

00:13:21 and our estrogen levels continue to increase you're just seeing less people jump into starting

00:13:26 their new business and i think there's a a whole host of probable entrepreneurs that have never

00:13:32 taken that jump because the their diet their activity level they're not getting sunshine

00:13:37 and as a result they just continue to kind of go through the motions of life um suppressing their

00:13:42 income and you know their their overall opportunity to impact the world it's risky and scary to start

00:13:48 a business men look at that and they're like well what if i don't make as much as i currently make

00:13:52 in this wage job what if i run into this challenge what if nobody else believes in me and that's

00:13:56 exactly right and they say i'm not going to start it right yeah it's interesting i was just going to

00:14:02 add you know something that popped in my head is as we think about um sort of performance in the

00:14:07 economy it's like the poorest people in the world are men and the richest people in the world are

00:14:11 men. And this actually would explain it if you think about testosterone as a sort of risk

00:14:15 inducing behavior or risk inducing, if you will. As men take more risks, there's also a higher

00:14:23 likelihood they fail. And so the higher testosterone men are making the big bets and that might make

00:14:28 them a billionaire. That also might make them, you know, living in their, having them living in

00:14:32 their mom's basement. So it goes either way. Yep. So true. Let's go ahead and have a quick

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00:16:23 All right, Chris, I wanted to ask you, it feels like, you know, it'd be nice to have

00:16:29 the benign explanation for a lot of these things and just say, oh, well, you know, we

00:16:32 just lost our our vigilance you know we just kind of let down our guard but but I've learned enough

00:16:41 to where I've realized sadly many of the transitions for what's happening in America in

00:16:48 regards to health and a host of other things for that matter are actually engineered they're

00:16:53 actually designed it's not just that oh you know all of a sudden Americans stopped caring about

00:16:58 health it's like oh no this this very specific thing took place at this time and it caused people

00:17:03 to change the way they thought about x y and z you know or and like the propaganda is is real and

00:17:09 and so i wanted to just get your take on um because i feel like i don't even know your thoughts on

00:17:16 this so you might disagree but i feel like between the legalization of marijuana um i feel like the

00:17:22 food pyramid was like one of the biggest psyops of all time that literally told you to eat the

00:17:27 exact opposite of what we were supposed to be eating. Introduction of sugar in everything,

00:17:32 cereal, those kinds of things, like heavy grains and low protein. And it really does feel as though,

00:17:38 I mean, it's hard for me to believe that someone is just a whole group of elites are just totally 1.00

00:17:44 bumbling fools. Because it's been so detrimental to Americans' health, and especially men, 0.98

00:17:50 that I'm like, no, you would have to hate. You'd have to hate the citizens of these United States.

00:17:57 It's like you couldn't even, the chances are just too, you could not accidentally fall into a plan more devastating for the American people than what has happened over the past, you know, few decades, half a century.

00:18:10 So this seems to me to be intentional and malicious in many ways.

00:18:16 We don't have to get into, you know, every single person who's behind it.

00:18:20 But I wanted to get your take on the food pyramid.

00:18:22 I wanted to get your take on what are some of the biggest things that currently men in

00:18:28 America are being lied to about in regards to health?

00:18:33 I'm actually glad you're kind of going this direction because I think as comfortable as

00:18:38 we are in society, and there's a lot of things that are a struggle for people in day-to-day

00:18:44 life, but the reality is it's still pretty comfortable for way too many of us that we

00:18:49 don't recognize the battle that we're in. And again, you could easily pass this off as just

00:18:56 companies wanting to make a little bit more money, wanting to kind of take advantage of that aspect

00:19:02 of it. But I come to think it's a lot more nefarious than that. And to me, it just comes

00:19:07 down to kind of good and evil and that there are evil entities that are working against us as an

00:19:14 individual. And to me, it comes down to just recognizing to that, like, you know, the spirit

00:19:21 of God rests in each of us. And so if you wanted to break people from that, the easiest way to do

00:19:27 that is to make them feel sick and disconnect their, you know, their soul from their body and

00:19:31 just get them to go through the motions of life day after day, operating at, you know, 50 to 60

00:19:38 percent of their potential and never be able to recognize what else God's calling them to do.

00:19:45 So that's kind of how I see it big picture. Now, like you said, I don't necessarily have

00:19:50 all the answers in terms of what the elites are up to and the conspiratorial side of it.

00:19:55 I just know that those forces are working against us day in and day out and that ultimately we need

00:20:01 to take control of our own health because we can't really place that responsibility into

00:20:07 systems to take you know take care of it and you know again i saw that time and time again of people

00:20:12 going into the hospital system waiting for them to you know wave their magic wand and they came

00:20:17 out on more meds more dependent than ever before and you can just see how you know people become

00:20:23 a shell themselves in the last 20 30 40 years of their life they're they're existing they're not

00:20:28 living anymore at that point right i agree um with the food pyramid specifically because i i 1.00

00:20:34 really do feel like that was i just refuse to believe that uh i mean scientists are stupid 0.92

00:20:41 don't get me wrong i'm i'm perfectly content to say that publicly as often as possible 1.00

00:20:46 um the experts i mean they really are stupid but i don't want the stupidity of our current 1.00

00:20:51 elites and experts to somehow eclipse um their evil i really want to make sure that our listeners 1.00

00:20:57 know that hey stupid but not stupid only also incredibly sinister and evil and when i think of 0.99

00:21:04 the fear pyramid and some of the research that i've done on it and looking um that's just it was 0.99

00:21:10 just it was it was so opposite of what's actually true i just can't i can't uh just pin it all on

00:21:18 negligence or stupidity um what what do you think what do you like i i'll just say i think um

00:21:25 that men with vitality with high testosterone uh with high ambition and energy are much uh 0.99

00:21:33 less docile and much more difficult to control. And so I think things like legalized marijuana,

00:21:41 high sugar diets, more carbs, less meat, lower testosterone with women, SSRIs. I think Alex

00:21:49 Jones nailed it. You know, the water, the fluoride is turning the frogs gay. I think it's turning a 1.00

00:21:52 lot of the people gay. And I think all these things combined is a perfect recipe for a populace 1.00

00:22:00 in what has been traditionally a superpower on the global stage,

00:22:05 the most powerful nation in the world with freedom-loving people, right?

00:22:11 Like a stock of people that are known for being cowboys

00:22:14 and taming the wild, wild west and all these things.

00:22:18 And it's like, how can you take that country with that people

00:22:23 and somehow strip it of all its ambition.

00:22:30 Like that's a really hard thing to do.

00:22:32 That's a monumental task.

00:22:33 And I don't think that propaganda messaging

00:22:35 was sufficient on its own.

00:22:38 I think that people realize,

00:22:40 no, it also has to be biochemical.

00:22:43 Like if we're going to take the American people

00:22:45 as elite as they are, as ambitious as they are,

00:22:48 and somehow sedate them is the word I'm looking for.

00:22:53 that's going to require not just the messaging that goes into their minds, but what goes into

00:22:59 their mouths. You are what you eat. And yeah, so the food pyramid, if we could just stay on that

00:23:06 for a while, what would you disagree with? And what would you prescribe instead in terms of diet?

00:23:13 What should men be eating? Yeah, so I would say I disagree with virtually all of it. Now,

00:23:21 I will say they've recently probably a month and a half ago come out with a new version of it that

00:23:26 is on the right track. And I think we can, you know, thank Secretary Kennedy for making some

00:23:32 adjustments and being more outspoken about what it needed to happen. You know, when I look at even

00:23:37 on an individual level with clients that come to us, but also the population, you know, you think

00:23:42 about the average person consumes like 10 grams of protein per breakfast, which is just laughable.

00:23:48 Um, you know, when you start, you know, and most people think like, oh, I have two eggs

00:23:52 every morning.

00:23:53 It's like, that's 12 grams of protein guys.

00:23:55 Like that's just not going to get the job done.

00:23:57 Um, but they don't know how to get that number up into an area where you're supporting muscle

00:24:03 recovery.

00:24:03 You're supporting, um, you know, improved muscle, uh, even testosterone levels and things

00:24:08 like that.

00:24:08 Like we can't build hormones without adequate protein intake on a day-to-day basis because

00:24:13 our body doesn't store it very well.

00:24:15 we're very very good at storing fats and carbs we're not very good at storing protein so if the

00:24:20 consumption isn't there on a regular basis you can see where hormones get out of balance muscle

00:24:25 losses it falls up falls off a cliff and we become you know kind of that skinny fat version

00:24:31 of ourselves we may not be 300 pounds but even at 220 most people are very low muscle mass very

00:24:37 low definition and carrying 50 extra pounds than what they actually need so you know and i'm not

00:24:43 going to sit here and say that like carbs are evil or things like that. I think what we've

00:24:47 created in our society is this hyper processed version of what we think carbs are when really

00:24:54 it's these fat carb combinations of mashed potatoes and mac and cheese and pizzas and

00:25:00 things that are, they don't, those, those foods don't exist in nature. Like other than like breast

00:25:05 milk, there is almost no combination of fats and carbs that like exist together in, in kind of a

00:25:13 whole food form. And, you know, what does breast milk do? It causes babies to grow rapidly. Well,

00:25:19 when we eat them as adults, it causes us to grow very rapidly as well. So, you know, I think it's

00:25:24 more of like building the foundations around protein. And, you know, one of my rules is we

00:25:29 should be getting to a minimum of 30 grams of protein per meal, like minimum. And it's not that

00:25:34 hard to do once you know how to leverage foods with like a quality protein to calorie ratio and

00:25:40 things like that. Um, so that we're not having, you know, 10 grams of protein and then, you know,

00:25:45 four different sources of carb fat combinations where it's like, yeah, we've consumed a thousand

00:25:50 calories and we've only got 10 or 15 grams of protein on this plate. That's just a losing

00:25:54 strategy day after day. Well said. Yeah. And I would just say, Joel, going back to your comment

00:25:59 about sedation and what, what the consequences of the food pyramid that was introduced in the

00:26:03 1990s, has been, particularly within the male population here in America, I think it's,

00:26:08 even if you were to say it was an accidental cause that sedation has happened, I think 0.54

00:26:13 it's undeniable that that's true, that you look at men today and they look in the mirror

00:26:17 and they're uninspired by how they look, they feel bad, there's probably a positive

00:26:20 feedback loop and feeling bad, lower testosterone, I'm actually now not incentivized to go to

00:26:25 the gym, not incentivized to eat healthy.

00:26:27 It's kind of similar to like the architecture scheme, the modernism that's been introduced.

00:26:31 It's just soul crushing.

00:26:32 And it's actually funny, I was thinking about maybe potentially one of the other causes as you introduce the food pyramid is corporate interest.

00:26:39 I mean, there's no secret that you have doctors at the FDA who have come over from companies as they were top researchers at a company like Hostess or Procter & Gamble.

00:26:48 Now they're coming in and saying, hey, actually what that company's doing, it's a revolving door.

00:26:52 What they're doing is actually something that should be promoted.

00:26:54 I actually was looking in preparation of the show, Dr. Chris, I'm curious if you knew this, but if I'm a company like Wonder Bread,

00:27:00 If anyone remembers Wonder Bread, it was massive in the 2010s and the 90s.

00:27:05 That company was actually owned by another company called Hostess.

00:27:09 I think they sell glazed, just the sloppiest glazed donuts.

00:27:13 And they also sell Wonder Bread.

00:27:14 It's practically cake.

00:27:16 Now, if I'm them and I'm introducing a product that's just jam-packed of unhealthy fats and carbohydrates,

00:27:22 what do I tell the FDA?

00:27:23 What do I say, hey, this is the healthiest thing you can eat?

00:27:26 It's bread, bread in the morning, bread in the afternoon, bread at dinner.

00:27:29 And so it really, I'm just asking questions, but it really doesn't surprise you when you

00:27:33 think about these things is, oh yeah, there's clear corporate interest, people wanting to

00:27:38 pad their pockets and they're willing to sacrifice the health of the American people to do that.

00:27:43 Yeah, I think that's true.

00:27:44 And horseshoe theory is real in many regards, but here's one example.

00:27:50 I just, I can't help but recognize, and I know all of our listeners, they see this,

00:27:54 you know this instinctively, you know this.

00:27:56 um it's like men and women have have gotten to the point where they they've kind of come back

00:28:03 around and uh there is like a growing sizable population of men and women that virtually like

00:28:13 physically on on the face of it you just look at them they look the same like the like the the

00:28:19 short-haired like you're um ellen degenerate and you're i don't know i can't think of a guy offhand

00:28:28 but um just you know a limp-wristed very weak frail man they have the same haircut they have

00:28:36 the same grip strength you have a weak jawline because they didn't grow up processing meats that

00:28:41 are difficult to chew they grew up on a diet of soft foods which meant their palate never expanded

00:28:46 And so they have all these teeth crowded in, a recessed chin behind them.

00:28:49 Instead of a strong, masculine jaw, they have this sunken, soft, rounded, feminine face.

00:28:55 Yeah.

00:28:56 And so it's affecting even the way that Americans look.

00:29:00 Like there's less distinctives.

00:29:03 Obviously, we know a lot of this, you know, is intentional in terms of, you know, the LGBT and transgenderism and all those kinds of things. 0.55

00:29:09 But I'm talking aside from just behavior patterns and the way that people dress, I'm saying like the physique and the physical, biological category alone, men and women are starting to look the same. 0.97

00:29:22 Well, how about this statistic from 1960 to 2010?

00:29:26 In 1960, the average weight of the American woman was 140 pounds.

00:29:30 The average weight of the American man was about 166.

00:29:33 Today, those numbers have not held.

00:29:36 That's rough.

00:29:37 I regret to inform you.

00:29:38 140 women 1960 today weigh an average the same average that men used to weigh in 1960 of about

00:29:45 167 pounds and men have gone from an average of 167 to an average of 195 wow chris uh to your point

00:29:55 i'm thinking that's probably not mostly muscle there huh isn't that insane 30 pounds average

00:30:01 it's one of those things too that i think the average person believes that oh i'm i'm 230 pounds

00:30:07 I really only need to get to 200 to be healthy again. And then they get down to 200 and they're

00:30:13 like, why can't I see my six pack yet? And it's like, because you don't belong at 200, man,

00:30:17 you belong at, you know, 175. And they kind of look at you like, oh, I'd be too skinny at that.

00:30:21 It's like, well, for you to get into like a, you know, 16, 17% body fat range, like that's where

00:30:28 you belong. And that's where we were, we were for a long, long time. But now, you know, we've,

00:30:33 we've continued to kind of move the needle based on our diets and, you know,

00:30:37 even just culturally what's acceptable and what's not acceptable. Um, but yeah,

00:30:42 it's absolutely wild to, and again, you're not adding that weight in muscle mass.

00:30:48 You know, the, the nature of our jobs now is like, we're sitting at desks,

00:30:52 we're not moving. We're not, you know,

00:30:55 lumberjacks and things like that who are stimulating muscle mass while we're

00:30:59 doing our day-to-day activities. Um,

00:31:01 So there's just a complete disconnect of what healthy actually looks like today.

00:31:05 I'm curious what you think about this heuristic.

00:31:07 I saw this somewhere with respect to what your target weight should be as an adult man.

00:31:13 And it was something like you should weigh what you weighed, say, your senior year of high school, age 17, age 18, at the point where and obviously now that that is even becoming skewed because people are obese in high school.

00:31:25 but you can imagine if you're a young man, you were relatively active, you were doing sports in

00:31:29 school or whatever the case is, working with your dad on a farm, you have a high metabolism,

00:31:34 you're probably relatively fit. What do you think about a heuristic like that? How should we think

00:31:38 about the weight, the proper weight that we should be for the layman, the average man?

00:31:44 Yeah. I mean, the statistics are actually kind of staggering that for the average person,

00:31:50 if you're under six foot tall, you probably shouldn't weigh over 180 pounds. Um, and,

00:31:55 and that's just from a long-term health perspective, unless you are at an elite level

00:32:00 of muscle mass, um, you really, there's no, you have no business being over 200 pounds unless

00:32:04 you're, you know, six, four or six, five, six, six, but you know, really anybody under six foot

00:32:09 that 180 or below range, um, is, is really where you're at your healthiest. And, you know,

00:32:15 anything above that, like you said, if you're, you know, people call themselves, I'm pretty

00:32:20 thick boned, or I've got a lot of muscle mass. And it's like, but have you been working that

00:32:24 muscle mass for the last 20 years? If not, most of that is probably no longer muscle anymore.

00:32:30 But you still have that, you know, I played linebacker in high school at, you know, 195

00:32:35 pounds. You're probably even at 195 today, you're probably not at your healthiest, you probably even

00:32:41 need to be lighter than that. So yeah, I totally agree that I think that at today's, you know,

00:32:46 today's 45 50 year old male i think that's probably an accurate measure we'll probably

00:32:51 have to reevaluate that in the decades to come because yeah certainly muscle mass for the average

00:32:56 18 year old is something that is uh pretty hard to come by unfortunately so just get as practical

00:33:04 as possible can you just give us a list of like what are what are like the 10 best foods for men

00:33:10 right we women it's important that they eat healthy as well but we've got like over 90 percent of our

00:33:15 audience is men. So what are the 10 best foods that men should be eating on a regular basis?

00:33:21 Can you help us, Chris? Yeah. So from, if you're looking to lean down again, leveraging that

00:33:26 protein to calorie ratio is huge. So you want to get as much protein as you can while you're

00:33:32 keeping calories low. So seafoods are awesome. Shrimp, fish, tuna, things like that. Ground

00:33:38 beef is awesome too, because you know, I like 85, 15 or better because you can save like 200

00:33:44 calories just going from like 80 20 up to like 87 13 and obviously it gets leaner and leaner and

00:33:50 more and more protein as you continue to build from there and it's just a very versatile food

00:33:54 i mean you get to eat burgers you get to eat um you know taco bowls things like that um so you

00:33:59 can really get some really savory meals um with a lot of flexibility steak is great i'm not a huge

00:34:06 fan of you know things like ribeyes the carnivores aren't going to like that but um you know leaner

00:34:11 linear cuts sirloins and flank steaks and skirt steaks um where you get maximizing protein um i

00:34:17 love greek yogurt i love cottage cheese if you can handle dairy they're just they're they're well

00:34:22 over 40 protein both of them so you know not only can you use them for like yogurt bowls or

00:34:27 but they're just like things you can add to meals you know you have a small pasta dish and you throw

00:34:32 it on with some ground beef load some cottage cheese on there just to be able to get some

00:34:37 additional protein where it's like, yeah, I'm not, I'm not going to go back for that second

00:34:41 bowl of pasta because I've got a lot more satiety by being able to add in that cottage cheese to go

00:34:46 along with it. Um, and I think any quality protein source, um, I'll throw one more out there. Pork

00:34:52 chops are awesome. Pork is especially not talking necessarily about bacon, but like, uh, pork

00:34:57 tenderloin, or if, you know, you go to Costco and pick up their, their big pork loin and you can,

00:35:02 you know, you can feed a, you could probably create 15 meals off of a $20 pork loin. Um,

00:35:08 and it's like super lean. So really easy way to maximize protein. So you take any of those

00:35:13 and then be able to pair that with vegetables, a green of some kind, like just throw it on the

00:35:19 plate, get some volume in there. Um, so you're not going to two and three different carb sources

00:35:25 along the way. So those would be kind of my, my starters. Um, and then I guess the last thing

00:35:30 I'll throw in there is I think whey protein is is highly underrated as well it's it's highly

00:35:34 absorbed so you absorb it very very well so like for instance um you know versus like the plant

00:35:39 based stuff which we can get into if you guys want to a little bit but like your body actually

00:35:43 can use a much higher percentage of that whey protein than a standard like plant protein and

00:35:49 you can add that into like a simple shake or a smoothie or you throw it on top of a yogurt bowl

00:35:54 to be able to get, you know, 10, 15, 20 extra grams in. Um, and it's like 90% protein. So it's

00:36:00 basically pure protein that you're adding in keeping carbs under control. Awesome. Yeah.

00:36:05 Thank you for sharing. Um, so we actually, on that note, um, we picked up a brand new sponsor

00:36:11 just recently. It's paleo Valley. I'm curious, Chris, have you ever heard of paleo Valley?

00:36:16 I have, I haven't tried the beef sticks yet, but, uh, I've got some and I could send you some if

00:36:22 you're interested but uh what i like about it so they sent us some samples and we've been eating

00:36:26 them uh pretty much non-stop probably more than chris would approve of uh over the last week but

00:36:31 it's like yeah joel it's good for you but uh but at that quantity i don't know if it works

00:36:36 you're undoing all the effects but they're delicious what i like about it is uh it is

00:36:40 good quality but it's also a ton of different flavors so they have summer sausage they have

00:36:44 garlic summer sausage they have their original flavor their jalapeno flavor their teriyaki

00:36:48 flavor so I'm holding a bunch of the beef sticks but then this bad boy my wife they sent this as

00:36:53 a sample and my wife was like I know you work with other men and they have wives as well and

00:36:57 we want to care about them but you also need to not care about them and bring this home to me

00:37:00 so this is uh this is their bone broth protein and uh and from what I've read about it and a

00:37:07 little bit of the uh the research and I want to hear what you have to say about Chris in just a

00:37:10 moment but it seems like this is uh incredibly healthy and can be added to a lot of different

00:37:15 recipes. But for any of our listeners who do want to get a deep discount, right now, Paleo Valley

00:37:20 is offering with our promo code, which is NXR26, right? 2026, but it's not the 20 part. NXR26,

00:37:28 you can get 15%, so not just 5% or 10%, but 15% off anything in their website. But you can also,

00:37:35 if you want to go and see some of the items that we kind of selected, because their website is,

00:37:39 it's massive, and there's a ton of different things, and a lot of it appeals to women. It

00:37:43 It may not appeal to the men, but if you want to look at some of the more masculine items

00:37:48 with Paleo Valley, then you can just go to paleovalley.com forward slash NXR, right?

00:37:56 Is that it?

00:37:56 Oh, yep.

00:37:57 And the 26th.

00:37:58 Yep, so paleovalley.com forward slash NXR 26.

00:38:02 If you go there, it'll show you all our hand-selected items, and they'll automatically, if you

00:38:07 use that domain, they'll automatically be discounted 15%.

00:38:10 But if you just want to go to their main website, which is probably what I would do, paleovalley.com, then just make sure to use the promo code on your way out, which again is NXR26.

00:38:20 So what do you think?

00:38:22 I just want to pick your brain real quick, Chris, on the bone broth protein, regardless of what company it's from.

00:38:29 But just as a food source, what do you think about bone broth?

00:38:33 Huge fan.

00:38:34 Yeah, I use it pretty much every day.

00:38:36 Um, you can, you know, some people don't love the idea of just like having a couple of bone

00:38:40 broth, but I think it works really well as like a, an appetite suppressant where, you

00:38:46 know, in the middle of the afternoon, if you're just looking to graze on something, um, you

00:38:49 know, you're going to get a elite protein source in my, my favorite option is in the

00:38:54 morning because, uh, bone broth on an empty stomach is amazing for your gut health.

00:39:00 And that's a big problem for a lot of people too, is, you know, the, the gut and the brain,

00:39:04 we call it the second brain in the gut basically so it's communicating with your brain it's uh

00:39:11 you know significantly involved in even like brain function and you know if you have a lot

00:39:15 of brain fog and inflammation even joint problems um a lot of it stems from the gut so if you can

00:39:21 be putting something in your gut to help basically repair the inner lining of your gut um that's

00:39:27 going to help keep a lot of the garbage from getting into your bloodstream and circulating

00:39:31 throughout your system. So doing it on an empty stomach is probably the best way to do it. But

00:39:36 then you can certainly use it throughout the day as, you know, something you sip on. But if you

00:39:41 don't like the taste, you don't like sipping on it, even adding it into things like, you know,

00:39:44 when you're cooking your rice or soups, things like that, you can almost mask it and, you know,

00:39:50 be able to continue to really take advantage of one of those foods that we just don't consume

00:39:55 anymore. You know, we used to consume like head to tail and use the bones to be able to create

00:40:00 soups and um we've sort of discarded some of the most nutrient dense uh items that you know animals

00:40:05 provide for us right okay so that's super helpful and uh i i couldn't eat them because we needed the

00:40:11 props for the show uh but now we we've we've already talked about it so i'm having a beef

00:40:15 steak paleo valley nxr 26 that's a promo um but what if we scratched everything we've been talking

00:40:22 about chris and just forget the bone broth forget the protein forget exercise all these things

00:40:26 and just we just just do a bunch of ozempic how do you feel about that

00:40:31 yeah well it's certainly what a large percentage of the population is doing right now that's for

00:40:36 sure um what do you think about ozempic i'm curious it's i would say it's a tool for some

00:40:43 that i can see the advantages of i don't like to paint with a wide brush because there are people

00:40:49 that are truly addicted to food and it doesn't matter what they try to do from a habit standpoint

00:40:54 they're not going to be able to shake it without some form of help. That said, I have a really

00:41:00 hard problem with the way that it's marketed, the way it's being distributed. It was designed

00:41:05 initially for people that had high levels of diabetes, out of control, A1C levels, things like

00:41:13 that, where you help improve insulin sensitivity and things like that short term. But now it's

00:41:20 being handed out like candy for anybody who wants to lose 20 pounds and the research is very clear

00:41:24 like if you don't consume enough protein and you don't lift weights you're going to end up skinny

00:41:29 fat or you're going to be on this drug for the rest of your life like those are your two options

00:41:33 so nobody is doing any kind of lifestyle work with these clients when they're coming in to hand out

00:41:40 the drug they're being given the drug they're being told like yeah you should eat a lot of

00:41:43 protein and you should try to do this but like there's no instruction on what that actually

00:41:47 looks like. And then come to find out that these clients are taking, you know, high doses of,

00:41:53 you know, Zempic and the Wagovi and things like that, where like they physically can't get in

00:41:58 enough protein to maintain their muscle mass because they're so like their appetite is so 0.90

00:42:03 suppressed. So at that point, like you're going to lose muscle and then what, you know, you're,

00:42:09 you're going to eventually come off of this and you're, you're metabolically going to be more

00:42:13 broken than you were before, which again, the nefarious side of things, that's why I think

00:42:17 these drugs were created in the first place is they recognize like, Hey, we have a giant customer

00:42:22 base sitting in America that wants a quick fix. We can offer them a quick fix. And now we have a

00:42:28 net, like a Netflix subscription model that these people are going to be tied to for the rest of

00:42:33 their life. So I think, again, there's a time and a place for that, but anybody who's considering

00:42:38 jumping on this or is doing it right now, you should be looking for an off-ramp to be able to

00:42:44 make sure that this becomes a lifestyle and not something that you're going to be dependent on

00:42:47 forever. You mentioned it, but that loss of muscle mass is huge. Having more muscle mass,

00:42:53 I think of metabolic health. So your metabolism is this base rate of calories that you burn a day.

00:42:57 The bulk of your calorie burn, if you ever play pickleball or go walking, you're not actually

00:43:01 burning thousands of calories a day on exercise. You have a basal metabolic rate that's burning

00:43:06 most of your calories and so one of the things that helps increase that rate meaning that food

00:43:11 doesn't catch up to you as fast you're burning off most of it is by having a good metabolism

00:43:15 and muscle requires more calories as it turns out than fat and so when you go on something like

00:43:21 ozempic especially if you're just trying to lose 20 pounds like men you can lose 20 pounds you do

00:43:26 not need ozempic to lose 20 pounds to lose 30 pounds literally walk my goodness like go for a

00:43:32 walk at lunch. But if you jump on something like that, like a GLP-1, you're not just losing the

00:43:37 fat that's going along with it. There are no trade-offs. There are no, I would say, trade-off

00:43:41 free compounds or anything like that in the real world. There's always going to be a trade-off.

00:43:45 So you will lose weight and you will lose some fat. You're also going to lose muscle. You're

00:43:50 going to lose the thing that helps you when you come off of it, have a metabolism that burns

00:43:55 through the calories that you're consuming at the end of the day. But I do appreciate you not

00:44:00 painting with a broad brush and saying, hey, sometimes the effects, and you can tell me

00:44:03 whether you agree with this or not, the effects of having a high BMI, high body fat, there comes

00:44:09 a point where they're so destructive that even the downsides of Ozempic, even the side effects

00:44:13 that come with it, they could be worth it short term because, I mean, my goodness, like having

00:44:18 high body fat, we're talking lifespan decrease. We're talking inability, heart risk. We're talking

00:44:24 inability to get active because every time you go to start moving, you injure yourself because

00:44:28 you're carrying along more weight and so it's not a broad brush this is always bad always a terrible

00:44:33 idea no positive effect to it but you're saying be very very aware that there are trade-offs i

00:44:40 want to hand it back to you one last time and then chris tell us where people can find you

00:44:43 yeah so i'm very active over on twitter at chris betcher nine uh we put out a ton of value over

00:44:50 there um and obviously on the on the coaching side of things um we we have resources available

00:44:56 full accountability things along those lines can you spell your name just for anyone listening

00:45:00 yeah so it's uh the last name is spelled betcher b-o-e-t-t-c-h-e-r fantastic betcher i would have

00:45:08 never guessed i in fact i i just i couldn't even bring myself to guess i was so intimidated by

00:45:15 by that last name the spelling of it that i was like i'm just gonna ask him on air how do you say

00:45:20 betcher bet your bottom dollar bet your bottom dollar okay um yeah that's how i found you i

00:45:24 found you over on X and you've got some good stuff. So we encourage our listeners to go and

00:45:28 check you out. Any final word that you want to leave us with, Chris? Yeah, no, I just encourage

00:45:33 everybody to, you know, again, use the vessel God's given you. That's ultimately what it comes

00:45:38 down to is, you know, put yourself in a position where as you start losing weight, as you start

00:45:42 making those lifestyle changes, you know, it puts you in a position to be, you know, better father,

00:45:47 better community leader, and just kind of pour out to those around you, which, you know, we so

00:45:51 desperately need right now amen all right we're gonna go to uh one more announcement and then

00:45:56 we're gonna start taking super chats so go ahead and get them in we take the youtube super chats

00:46:00 as well as rumble so if you're listening live on rumble send them in and we will deal with the

00:46:03 super chats but we're gonna let chris go and uh you guys make sure to go follow him on x and uh

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00:46:58 All right, we are back.

00:47:00 We've got some super chats over on YouTube,

00:47:01 but let's go ahead and start with the Rumble one first.

00:47:03 We're trying to build up a little bit of momentum,

00:47:05 some motion over on Rumble.

00:47:07 And you guys have been finding us.

00:47:09 What do we have?

00:47:09 I mean, we just started first week of January this year.

00:47:12 It's been like, what, six, seven weeks?

00:47:13 But what are we up to?

00:47:14 We started from zero, started from the bottom.

00:47:16 Now we're here.

00:47:17 4,200 subscribers.

00:47:18 4,200 subscribers.

00:47:19 That's great.

00:47:20 Praise God.

00:47:20 Okay.

00:47:21 So this is from JNR Doyle86.

00:47:25 All right.

00:47:25 He wrote in.

00:47:26 He said, last week, I asked about wanting to try and unify American Protestantism.

00:47:31 And then he has some follow-ups here.

00:47:32 He said, Tim Gordon, Timothy Gordon is a great guy.

00:47:35 We've had him on the show.

00:47:35 he mentioned Joel supporting the idea of the Nicene Creed as such a possible unifying creed.

00:47:43 That's true. I think in terms of the political unity that's required for a national consensus

00:47:51 and cohesiveness, it should be creedal rather than confessional. If it's confessional,

00:47:56 then I think everybody's going to be at each other's throats. But creedal, Nicene Creed,

00:48:01 Apostles' Creed, those kinds of things I think would suffice. And then JNR Doyle86, he further

00:48:07 wrote, he said, eventually I decided an agreed-upon universal creed might be best that establishes

00:48:15 a core of shared beliefs while leaving minor idiosyncrasies untouched for each church.

00:48:22 So it sounds like you eventually came to my position. God bless. And then last, he said,

00:48:27 as a protestant i am allergic to most things catholic but not all i get that there's some

00:48:32 there's some catholic things where i'm like and it's and it's tough it's tough all right so then

00:48:38 he furthermore he said so i asked to hear the case for this project as a possible solution to

00:48:45 my desired intention thank you now first and foremost i'm just gonna say um if this becomes

00:48:52 the new standard for super chats on rumble uh this guy he really got some bang for buck on this

00:48:57 one it's like one super chat three follow-up comments um just this is a multi-week conversation

00:49:02 too by the way he's like we're doing a whole book on this we're doing a whole series yeah

00:49:07 in the super chats jnr doyle uh 86 i just we appreciate you but you've got you've got to know

00:49:14 that this um this can never happen again we're just this is out of control this never happened

00:49:19 again but for today um yeah i think uh i just it's not the 1800s anymore i wish it was i really

00:49:29 do um but in more ways than one and yeah in so many more ways but uh the wasp uh that built

00:49:35 america we just have to be honest that uh that he is he has seen better days he is all but

00:49:43 disappeared, declining rapidly, and Catholicism is much stronger in America than it used to be.

00:49:51 I'm not saying it's stronger than Protestantism, but at the rate of growth, it is catching up

00:49:57 quickly. Now, I do think that our Catholic friends should acknowledge that a big part of that is not

00:50:02 necessarily conversion. There are conversions to Catholicism, so I'm not taking that away from them,

00:50:07 but a massive part of it is opening the floodgates. It was a heart-seller act in opening 0.96

00:50:12 the floodgates to third world countries and importing brown Catholics into the country. 1.00

00:50:17 That is what happened. 0.58

00:50:19 We just, we need, you know, the Catholics, there's so many things we're aligned on, but

00:50:22 I do need them to acknowledge that reality. 0.99

00:50:25 So as a Protestant, I'm over here saying, yeah, the guys on my team are insufferable 0.93

00:50:31 Zionist and opened the door to a bunch of Jewish supremacy in the United States that 0.87

00:50:36 has had us in a stranglehold. 0.97

00:50:38 So I've got to own that on the Protestant side, Zionism. 0.87

00:50:42 On the Catholic side, globalism. 0.89

00:50:44 But you've got to be honest about that.

00:50:46 That has been, yeah, the increase of Catholicism in the United States has not merely been just winning hearts and minds in conversion. 0.95

00:50:55 It has been importing them by the millions from third world, non-Western and non-white countries. 0.99

00:51:02 And I think that it has been a detriment, a net negative for the country. 1.00

00:51:07 So how do we align? 1.00

00:51:09 do we align i i think at this point there are so many catholics and so many protestants that if we

00:51:13 made it just it's going to be the westminster confession of faith at the national federal

00:51:17 level and no exceptions uh then i i i mean it's that's just a recipe for civil war honestly like

00:51:23 that's at this point we do not have we don't have the critical mass for that so i think it's going

00:51:29 to have to be a broad christian consensus creedal not confessional and um something like adopting

00:51:36 one of the historic creeds, but this is not, just for the record, this is not coming up with a new

00:51:40 creed. No, this is going back to something that's already tried and true, like the Apostles' Creed,

00:51:45 Nicene Creed, and probably adopting this creed as a preamble, formally adopting it as a preamble

00:51:53 to the Constitution. I think that that's probably what needs to happen. There's a lot of work before

00:51:57 we get there, a lot of symposiums and conferences and panels where Catholics and Protestants are

00:52:03 sitting down and having these conversations. And for all my Reformed brothers, I am of the

00:52:08 Protestant Reformed tradition who are cringing at like Catholics and Protestants sitting down. 1.00

00:52:13 Here's the deal, guys. I know it's hard. I know there are real differences and they matter and

00:52:19 I don't want to minimize them. But here's the deal. All these Reformed guys that you look up to,

00:52:24 they're all sitting down with Jews. They're doing conferences with Jews. They're at NatCon 1.00

00:52:30 with Jorm Hazone. They're co-authoring books with Jews. They're at TPUSA. They're sharing stages 0.89

00:52:35 with Nicki Minaj. And you're going to say that I can't sit down with a Catholic and have a 1.00

00:52:41 conversation on how to save America? Look, you're sitting down with Jews who believe that Jesus is 1.00

00:52:48 burning in hell, right? 1 John, you know, I understand the Reformers. I'm familiar with 0.98

00:52:53 John Calvin. I'm familiar with, but you just got to come to recognize, 1 John says, who is it

00:52:59 that is the Antichrist, but he who denies that Jesus has come in the flesh. Catholics don't do 0.80

00:53:06 that. Let's just be honest for a moment. On the particulars, Catholics don't deny that Jesus has 0.90

00:53:12 come in the flesh. Catholics don't deny the incarnation. Catholics don't deny the virgin

00:53:17 birth. Catholics don't deny the bodily resurrection. Catholics don't deny the ascension.

00:53:22 who denies that? Jews. And all these Protestant reformers who aren't even dispensationalists, 0.99

00:53:30 who should know better, who have adopted covenant theology and these kinds of things,

00:53:34 they're perfectly happy to do conference after conference after conference, podcast after 0.90

00:53:38 podcast, book deal after book deal with Jews. And meanwhile, these are the same guys who would 0.98

00:53:44 rile up some of you to think that I've somehow compromised sitting down and being willing to

00:53:50 have a conversation with a Catholic. You need to know this is nefarious. This is not just, 0.98

00:53:55 oh, it just happened to play out this way. No, no, no, no. Some high up reformed guys were bought

00:54:02 and you know it. You've watched it. You've seen the interviews, maybe even just in the last couple

00:54:07 of days. They're bought, they're paid for, and they're trying to poison the well against guys

00:54:15 like me, but it's very clear that it's manipulation. So all that being said, if we're going to win the

00:54:23 nation, it's going to have to be a broad Christian alliance, a broad Christian alliance. And Reformed

00:54:29 guys, we have serious theological differences with Catholics, but you know what? Those debates,

00:54:35 as important as they are, they are the luxury of winning. We've got to win the country, and then we

00:54:40 will have those debates. But in a political and cultural realm, I think there needs to be a

00:54:46 co-belligerency. And anybody who's trying to shoot that down, while in the same breath,

00:54:52 doing the exact same co-belligerent strategy with Jews, you know that person is bought and paid for. 0.65

00:54:58 That person is being dishonest. There is no such thing as that level of stupidity. 1.00

00:55:03 That, that is not stupid. That is malicious. That person knows what they're doing. 1.00

00:55:08 And he's mentioning this too in the realm of politics. So in addition to the constitution

00:55:12 preamble, remember politics is friend and enemy. And so if you're coming off of the 30 years war,

00:55:18 for example, and Protestants and Catholics, for one, those are the only two religions with any

00:55:22 semblance of adherence in Europe. And you have England with the Protestants and you have Catholics

00:55:27 and the Hasberg dynasty and everything here. Yeah, there's a real sense in which politically

00:55:30 they threatened one another's way of life. I mean, there's entire Protestant towns destroyed in the

00:55:35 Thirty Years' War. And then Protestants came back, 1.00

00:55:37 and they went to war, and they took over Catholic 0.98

00:55:39 towns. So in that time, friend, enemy,

00:55:41 who threatens my way of life? Catholics 1.00

00:55:43 distinctly threaten Protestants. Protestants 1.00

00:55:45 distinctly threatened Catholics. 0.98

00:55:47 Today, in the year of our Lord, 2026, 1.00

00:55:50 do Catholics threaten the way 1.00

00:55:51 of life of Protestants? They don't.

00:55:53 Jews do. Muslims do. Hindus do. 1.00

00:55:56 Indians do. Atheists do. 1.00

00:55:58 Atheists do. Well, atheists don't matter. 1.00

00:56:00 They're so insignificant and so small. 1.00

00:56:01 At this point, I feel...

00:56:03 I'm thinking of the... 1.00

00:56:04 I'm thinking of all the trans shooters. 1.00

00:56:07 That's true. 1.00

00:56:08 That's actually a religion called Satanism, I would argue. 0.99

00:56:13 And you already covered Judaism. 0.93

00:56:15 The founder of the Church of Satan was Jewish ethnically. 1.00

00:56:20 All of those religions threaten my way of life. 1.00

00:56:23 Catholicism right now in this time, and that wasn't always the case, it doesn't. 0.97

00:56:27 And so politically friend-enemy, I take the friends.

00:56:30 Not to the same degree, not for the foreseeable future.

00:56:32 So friend-enemy, here's a group that's friends, even though we would not share a church together.

00:56:37 None of what we talked about just now said, and so we should be inviting one another to

00:56:41 our churches, and I should be pulpit supply for the local Catholic parish, and we'd love

00:56:44 to have a priest.

00:56:45 Never said that.

00:56:46 That's the spiritual realm.

00:56:48 Politically, hey, we have a lot in common against a shared common enemy, and that's

00:56:53 politics.

00:56:53 That's right.

00:56:54 So outside of Protestant and Catholic, when you look at Muslim, Jewish, secular, all these 1.00

00:56:59 for the Hindu, much more of a threat to our way of life than Catholics are to Protestants or 1.00

00:57:06 Protestants are to Catholics. I would say that the only real serious, and again, not spiritually 0.99

00:57:11 speaking, not theologically, but politically and culturally, the main threat that Protestants pose 0.83

00:57:16 to Catholics is that Protestants are doing everything they can on almost like a 24-7 basis. 0.78

00:57:23 I mean, they're waking up with like dreams in the night, cold sweat, thinking, how can I give 0.75

00:57:28 away more cultural and political power to Jews. So on the Protestant side, we actually are a

00:57:34 threat to Catholics, because Catholics that live here in America, but not at the same degree. My 0.88

00:57:39 point is as Jews, Muslims, Hindus, secular atheists. But still, Protestants, I would say the main threat 1.00

00:57:44 that we pose to Catholics here in America is that we really do open up the door for Jewish influence. 0.99

00:57:51 And I'm not just being silly or trying to be base or something like that. I mean that we are 0.64

00:57:55 constantly giving away political and cultural capital to individuals, not necessarily every

00:58:01 single one of them, but to individuals in our country who are beholden, first and foremost,

00:58:06 their allegiance lies with a foreign nation rather than ours. That is a liability. And then

00:58:11 on the flip side, right, I'm not just going to pick on the Protestants, the Catholics, how are

00:58:15 they, again, not spiritually, theologically, but in the cultural political realm, a great ally,

00:58:21 but what's their Achilles heel? How do they threaten Protestants? They opened the door

00:58:27 to, they're like, which country right now, quick search, which country in the world has the lowest

00:58:33 GDP, the lowest education, zero literacy, the most diseases, bring them in. Like Catholics, 1.00

00:58:41 it is immigration. Protestants, it is Zionism. That's just kind of the way it is. Catholicism 0.99

00:58:47 is brown. Protestantism is Jewish. And we just both need to recognize our Achilles heels and 0.99

00:58:56 the ways that we've failed and maybe stop, maybe stop doing that. But we need to, all that being

00:59:02 said, we need to recognize in terms of degrees of threat, the threat is still, as bad as those 0.99

00:59:08 weaknesses are, the threat is still exponentially greater from Jews, Muslims, Hindus, secular

00:59:15 atheist right like surely we can agree okay over on youtube dakota davis said dominion wealth is

00:59:23 very helpful on this topic the topic of health awesome keep going let's do all dakota davis

00:59:29 all right all dakota davis he sent in two more he said uh what are thoughts on things like white

00:59:35 monsters so white monster energy drink uh i mean the fuel of just the new christian right i gotta

00:59:40 say there's there's some good energy drinks out there there's a need for more there's a need for

00:59:45 more. But white monster in particular, one of the things I love about it, very low calorie.

00:59:50 The calories in a full sugar monster, I think it's over 200, like your green monster. And that is

00:59:56 just sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar. Whereas something like a white monster, your sweetness in it comes

01:00:02 from sucralose. Sucralose is 600 times more potent of a sweetener than sugar. And so you have high

01:00:09 fructose corn syrup because the United States government subsidizes corn production and they're

01:00:13 able to extract the fructose and use that to sweeten your drinks. Downside, it's super high

01:00:18 calorie. White Monsters, your Red Bull Zero, Red Bull Sugar-Free, your Celsius, this is another

01:00:24 big one, they don't have all the calories in them that are, to be honest, they're making you fat.

01:00:30 They're building up, there's lots of sugar. So I like that part of them. The ingredients themselves,

01:00:35 most of them in high amounts, they're not great for you. Earthatol, sucralose, yeah, like don't

01:00:41 have a lot of them. But practically speaking, when it comes to, well, I could have this that

01:00:45 has 200 calories in it, and it's full of sugar. And I could have this that has an artificial

01:00:49 sweetener in it. Now, granted, it's like a 600th of the amount, but it's still not great.

01:00:54 The trade-off between the two of those, one wins hands down. Same thing with Diet Coke. Like,

01:00:59 yeah, there's some things in your aspartame. Yeah, if you're allergic to aspartame, don't have it.

01:01:03 But is it way better to have that than a, I think, Diet, what is regular Coke? 50,

01:01:08 60 grams of sugar the trade-off is very clear so the ideal is probably something like coffee the

01:01:15 ideal is something probably like organic urban mate which is a tea that has caffeine in it

01:01:19 those things are great but honestly not that far away is your white monster your red bull zero 0.93

01:01:24 don't drink a ton of them you know do coffee and do one of those a day but i would take that

01:01:29 far and above a full sugar energy drink i can even make it simpler than that i would just say 1.00

01:01:33 White monsters are for white monsters 0.99

01:01:36 Original monsters are for Satanists 1.00

01:01:38 There you have it

01:01:39 Last one from Dakota Davis

01:01:42 Real quick, he said

01:01:42 Are y'all observing Lent? Why or why not?

01:01:45 I'll go first, I'll keep it brief

01:01:46 Nope

01:01:48 I don't think there's something bad to saying

01:01:50 I'm going to take these two months and get off social media

01:01:52 Totally, I think it's a great practice

01:01:54 And you have the freedom to observe it

01:01:57 Exactly, Godspeed to anybody

01:01:59 Who wants to do that

01:02:00 But we are Protestant

01:02:03 and unashamedly so and we love our tradition and we actually do fast from whether it be you know

01:02:10 fast from food or fasting certain vices or things like that on a regular basis but we we do not

01:02:18 observe lint we're going to start right now we're going to end right then but the practice itself

01:02:23 i think it could be a really helpful practice but we are not catholic okay uh last one can you read

01:02:28 it, Antonio? Yep. The Edrow Whistle sent

01:02:30 $2 and says SCOTUS has

01:02:32 just scuttled the entire plan.

01:02:34 Tariffs. It's over. It's over.

01:02:36 Yeah, it's true.

01:02:38 Go invest now. No, seriously.

01:02:40 Great time to get in the stock market.

01:02:42 And honestly, you probably need to

01:02:44 because you're going to need to make some kind of

01:02:46 profit to be able

01:02:48 to build wealth as a hedge against

01:02:50 the country that your children... Hey, if

01:02:52 they're selling out your country, at least profit from it.

01:02:54 No, seriously, though. Yeah, if your country

01:02:56 is being sold out

01:02:58 by the Supreme Court, because Congress is never going to do it. If that's happening,

01:03:04 then you better, you not only might as well, you better profit on it so that your kids have a hope

01:03:10 and a future. And then you need to leave and try to, I don't know, try to live in Japan, 0.98

01:03:14 maybe El Salvador, maybe Hungary. I don't know. I would just say this too quickly. I'm no

01:03:19 constitutional scholar, but I do think there's an argument where you could probably derive from

01:03:24 article one, that it is a legislative function to enact tariffs, taxes, tariffs, levies, all of

01:03:29 these things are technically within the remit of congressional authority. And so a president

01:03:33 actually taking executive authority to, I mean, you can, in a very strict, narrow sense of the

01:03:39 law, you can make a case that the president should not be enacting tariffs. And so I'm not in all

01:03:44 too fuss about it, but we all recognize that in order to save the country, we're going to need

01:03:49 broader executive authority. Congress has just stalemated every which way. Last four years,

01:03:54 they passed virtually nothing outside of appropriations bills. So on one hand, as an

01:03:59 American, you can say it, me, Constitution, and say it probably makes sense. On the other hand,

01:04:04 you're like, yep, my country's actively being sold out. And like you said, Joel, the least I can do

01:04:08 is try to make a gain from it. Yep. Last one. God is good, and I am a monkey. He said,

01:04:15 health as a tool for furthering God's glory, not reaching transhumanist immortality via

01:04:20 artificial wombs and other horrors will be an ongoing ideological battle. Good to see you guys

01:04:26 with NXR Studios engaging with this topic. All right, that is it. We are signing off.

01:04:31 God bless and Godspeed.

01:04:45 We'll be right back.

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