Just deciphered that this is episode 17 of the work.
Congratulations Greg, you are now a podcaster.
Most podcasts in all podcast players, like on iTunes, have
less than three episodes. We're at 17.
You're like a bona fide podcaster now. 17 is a special
number because that's my birthday in September.
In September 17th, I like the number 7 for whatever reason.
Like that is like I typically do things in increments of seven.
That's weird. I know.
I don't know. Most people would be that's that
would flare My OCD needs to be an even number.
See I have really bad OCD and like.
Can you still stick to 7? Or 9 or 9 like.
When I do push ups, I'll do 79 push ups.
Yeah, I'm weird. OK, so let's say you have a
carton of eggs and you take several out and make something
to eat. How many do you leave in there?
0. That's an even number.
All right, Well, I posted something online the other day
that's like your OCD. My OCD flares up when I have an
odd number of eggs left in a carton because you can't like
balance the design, like the you can't balance how they are in
there from either left to right or front to back or whatever.
When you have an odd number in there.
So you have to like there's three in there.
I have to like stagger them a weird way.
If there's four in there, it's easy. 6 is easy, you know.
I had a lot of eggs. Yeah, I.
Know I've been getting a lot of eggs, chips been giving me eggs
and then crystals been getting eggs from another local person.
That one egg that you showed me, the date chip, that big one I
gave that 1A diesel is definitely a double yogurt.
Was it a big old juicy egg? Yeah, that chicken has a flared
butt. That was a big egg.
I'm going to get chickens here
soon. Clancy is selling like 8 of his
I think, and we painted the chicken coop last weekend, the
inside of it. So now we're gonna get chickens
and I'll have my own eggs. What are you gonna do with
diesel though 'cause wasn't he the culprit last year?
Or last time, that was before he went to training.
So I think we could put his collar on now and probably,
like, train him not to mess with the chickens.
Like, I think he would be able to be receptive to that.
But also I'm gonna have a chicken, poultry electric fence
surrounding the chicken yard. So that would also keep him out.
Yeah, that'll be good. But we'll we'll start small with
only like 8 chickens. 8 chickens will probably get like 6-7 eggs
a day. Plus we've already got and
getting from Chip. I mean I could eat and I
normally eat like 12 eggs a day. Yeah, pretty typical like
Gaston. I'm like Gaston.
I got a lady in town here that gives me pastured eggs for $3 a
dozen and that's just insane. I saw somebody post that they
had like the alfresco eggs at Whole Foods and it was like I
don't know if it was real or not but it was like 1699.
Oh, they're crazy. Yeah.
If you, if you try to get decent like regenerative pastured all
the buzzwords, you're 10 plus dollars a dozen.
It's crazy. That is, wow, I don't mind
paying it if I know that it's done right, but like when you're
getting anything in a supermarket, you don't really.
Know you don't know it's. Probably not.
So what are we going to dive
into today, man? So we got the Rocktown Naturals
competition coming up this weekend.
Yep. Saturday, we're going to go to
that, but you're going to actually, you're going to take
part in that like. That was totally unintended.
So we were, we're sponsoring it, Keto Bricks sponsoring it.
So we were going to have a booth for that reason, but I didn't
even know if I was going to go because we just had a baby.
And it's a little ways away. It's.
A couple hours 3. Hours away, but my granny's got
a birthday this Thursday, tomorrow I guess.
So I've got to go spend time with all of them.
They're doing like a family reunion get together for her at
my folks house on Saturday night or afternoon.
So I'll go to Rock Town with you Saturday, you'll come back.
I'll stay the night there, spend time with the family, come back
Sunday. So I told them, hey, we'll go
ahead and have a booth. And then coincidentally 2 of
their judges dropped out last minute.
So I'm like, well I can be a judge if you need me to because
I'm a certified judge and they're like great, we'll use
you. And then they asked if I could
head judge and I'm like, I never had judge before so probably
don't want to do that. And they're like, well our MC is
a head judge so he could be the head judge and you could take
over the MC spot. And I've never MC before either.
But I've talked a lot on podcasts and whatnot so should
roll with. Him.
So you're gonna be MC ING a natural bodybuilding
competition. Yeah, and they're gonna give me
like all the talking points 'cause they're not that many
competitors, but I'll be the one reading out like the BIOS and
introducing people and everything, so it should be
pretty straightforward. So you had to be fine.
I'm excited. You'll be, you'll be fine
because you're used to the environment.
You, you know how shows go and yeah, yeah.
And you'll be rocking the booth so.
That I'll rock the booth. Excited about that and hopefully
we'll drum up some new competitors for our show in
September. Yeah, because we need them.
The more the merrier. Yes, we do.
So if you guys know anybody, natural competitor trying to get
into a WNBF show September 27th, Northwest Arkansas, yeah.
It's the one we're going to do a deep dive on competition stuff
tomorrow, but we're going to work on some promotional efforts
such as I don't have all the details ironed out yet, but
we're going to try and do like a little giveaway every single
week until the show, of which we're like 10 weeks out now,
nine weeks out now, and we'll pick a random winner from all
the registrants each week leading up to the show.
To get. A little, you know, preliminary
swag bag or something, so that'll be cool.
I'm excited about them. We got some pretty cool keto
brick stuff in the works, but I don't want to talk about that
until next week's work podcast as we get a little closer.
But that's exciting. We've been hammered away at
that. All kinds of good stuff.
All kinds of good. Stuff we've been restocking.
Restocking primal fudge is still in stock made a bunch of those
what are we making we're making malt next week that one's going
to go back in stock and then we're going to make more peanut
butter tallelujah Yep so that's good we.
Just made a bunch of Bell's Brownie this week.
We got a new flavour that don't anybody hold your breath on
because it's going to be a little bit further out, but it
is a brand spanking new. Brand new, not even.
We don't even have one close to. It no, it's totally unique,
totally unique, but it's we, we got the film proof for the
packaging design and we're going to approve that today.
That's totally unique. That's going to stand out.
Remember when we came out with cake pop and it was bright white
and I was like, wow, this is just refreshing.
Well, this is going to be. I will I will tease this so the
the design of the package, we're going with a pink theme on this
one, so not really savage. But not not all pink.
It's it's kind of like a light. Do we even?
It's not all pink. It's not all pink.
The highlights are pink. Yeah, some of the some of the
imagery is pink, some of the the highlights, yeah, we'll just
leave it like. It'll be good.
What? What's on?
About guess what? Well, guess what you think the
flavor's gonna be? Guess what you think the
flavor's gonna be? Let us know in the comments.
By the way, we got a bunch of good feedback on the podcast AMA
that we did where you were reading off questions and I was
just improving the answers. I think that format was well
received, so we'll do that again.
Keep that in mind and. Yeah.
And just for reference, anybody that listens to this, if you
submit questions, we'll compile those and we shipped everybody
whose questions we used. Free bricks.
So yeah, you got nothing to lose.
And that was like 8 people. Yeah, it was 8 questions and
that was that was cool, 'cause. I like.
Just thinking off the cuff and you know, going deep on
something. So that was good.
I like the format. You and I are both doing high
fat this week because I had done that two week experiment with
the FGF 21, saw positive results hormonally and metabolically and
we decided to do the same thing for you.
For a week. So you were.
Basically at the depth. Of your cut, 1700 calories, 1690
pretty low for you. So we're doing a week of four to
one, less than 9% of calories coming from protein.
We got you at 2500 calories. This week, I believe, yeah.
I'm just going to double check it.
I think it's 2550 or something like that.
Yeah, 2550. So we'll do that for a week.
You're doing cod liverim like I was whole goal being improved
hormone function, increased testosterone and improved
metabolic rates. And it's only Wednesday at the
time of this recording, but you're already feeling a lot
warmer. So that's a pretty good time
cater of increased metabolic rate.
And then after this week, we'll drop you down to like 2200
probably so significantly higher than the 1700 that you were at
and that'll give us more caloric runway from which to taper until
your next show in September. So that'll be good.
I think that's going to be a good way to elongate a prep in a
healthy manner. Yeah, I think so.
I mean, if you think, if you look at it or think about it
visually, it's like taking, you're going to stair, you're on
a stairwell and you take 2 steps up for a week and then you can
take one step back down. So you're starting off a little
bit higher. On the exactly.
Outside of that week. Exactly.
So yeah, we'll. See how it goes.
Saturday will be the last day of the high fat and then Sunday,
Whatever we decide, my macros will be for next week.
Instead of initiating those on Monday, which is typically what
happens, I'll just kick them, kick start them one day early on
Sunday. Yeah, but so far you get a
little bit more bloat because you're having a little bit more
fibre to kind of soak up the. Fan it's been.
It's been. Honestly, it's probably been a
decade since I've done much with cauliflower rice and that's what
I've been having 2 to 2 1/2 servings of with the cod liver.
So just crack it into a pan just like you were like you were
eating. Crack it into a cast iron or a
pan. Tastes pretty good.
Though, and it's super good. In fact, I'm probably going to
keep eating it. I might not do it with the
cauliflower rice or anything, but stir that all up in there.
Ton of salt, crack an egg, stir in some sauce, you're good to
go. I need to buy more cod liver
because I may be short for this whole week.
Oh, I got some. I just got a dozen from Amazon.
Well, I'll order some, but if I'm short before it gets here I
may steal one from you temporary.
How many you need 'cause I can grab you one tomorrow.
I think I've got 4 left, 3 or 4 left so I'll be short a little
bit. Well I ordered a dozen on Amazon
and they came the next day. Yeah, well, I'll order some
today and they should. Be I bet you the pills be here
tomorrow. So that'll be good.
Interestingly enough, you and I were training at J Street on
Saturday. We were doing legs with your
buddy Gary. We slammed legs.
We did 60,000 lbs of volume. We only did three exercises.
I did. Well, we did we.
Did 4. I guess counting calves we got 4
so leg press and then we did vertical.
Heavy on leg press. Yeah, heavy on leg press.
Then we did vertical reverse hack squat for like an RDL or
Good Morning and then. Quad extension.
Yeah, quad extension. That was it.
And then dunking the cab, Yeah. But we were there for nearly two
hours. Yeah, it was a long.
Slam and y'all were there earlier because y'all were doing
Stairmaster, so pretty good Leg day.
Yeah, I haven't done a dedicated leg day in a while, but that
felt good. But interestingly enough, while
we were there, we're talking to people.
That's definitely like a bodybuilding style gym.
I. Love that gym.
It's a good gym and we were. Talking to people who were like.
Hey, if you know anybody for the show, let us know.
You know, September 27th, bring them on.
If you know any clients, if you got any clients, if you know
anybody interested in competing and like we would say natural
and then be like automatically all that rules out everybody we
know. And it's like we were talking to
people. I mean, they had impressive
physiques, but like they weren't, and they're all females
too. That's the weird thing.
Like they were females that were impressive, but they weren't
like Olympia level by any means. You wouldn't, you wouldn't
assume they were an unnatural. That's it.
You wouldn't assume they were not, and they looked totally
obtainable. Naturally.
Oh yeah, they looked good. But they weren't.
But they may be unnatural for reasons outside of, you know,
performance enhancing totally. True, valid point, but it's just
crazy that like they know so many people that would be
interested in competing, but the moment we say they got to be
natural, it like, oh, we don't know anybody.
It's like, so that just kind of speaks to the popularity of
taking drugs in the sport, which is unfortunate, but.
It's the reality. We live in.
That same day, actually, before you guys, before you got there,
I was chatting with another competitor or somebody who had
done competitions in the past. And her coach at the time was a
huge advocate of PEDs and was pushing it and pushing it and
pushing it because her hormones were maybe lower than what he
was expecting or kind of athlete he works with.
And he was super pushy. So she was saying that she she
bucked back and she's like, no, I that's not that goes against
what I want to do. I don't, you know, I'm firing
you as a coach. This is not the way I want to do
things. So maybe that is kind of why
some of these athletes are no longer natural is because
there's so many coaches that are out there pushing that.
And you know, I've seen several people post this week, last
week, whatever. It's peak week for a lot of
athletes right now. And we we're going to the
Rocktown Naturals on Saturday. So there's obviously some
athletes in peak week for that and I've reached out to several
of them and just shoot them quickly.
I'll DM or comment on something that they're posting online and
just say, hey, which which show are you doing?
And everyone that I've connected with is doing the other one, the
NPC show this weekend. That's a non natural show.
It's like why is why is everyone so non natural?
That's. Well, I definitely.
Think the coaches are blamed for a lot of it because I mean,
I've. Heard horror stories of.
Clients that are working with me that came my way.
Because they were pushed towards drugs from their prior coach.
And it's like this is this is them.
Doing their first show. Often times.
Like their coaches are pushing drugs.
On their first show so. It's not like they're.
Depending on it. For their livelihood, for their
business like. For any of that, they're just
doing it as a hobby and they're like pushing drugs on them, like
young girls. And it's like it's.
So it's so unfortunate. It's so unfortunate because
you're impressionable to to crazy extent when you're, if I
would have thought back to my very first prep when I didn't
know a damn thing about anything, didn't know how to
even weigh food. And I hired a coach.
And if he would have been like, yeah, this is what we need to
do. You need to buy this, you need
to order this. We're going to inject this or do
whatever, you know, like we're going to cycle these things.
And that thing. I probably would have said yeah,
because I was like, OK, you know, you're the pro.
You have got all these physiques behind you that have won pro
cards and trophies and blasted shows and whatever they're doing
obviously is working. You know what you're doing,
whatever you're doing with your athletes, I probably would have
been susceptible to being definitely down that tunnel.
And I'm glad that the coach at the time, who I first reached
out to and worked with for the first time ever, wasn't that
kind. Of Guy.
But yeah, imagine, imagine just being so moldable,
impressionable, and your coach saying, yeah, we got it, this is
what you need, and then you're screwed for the rest of your.
Yeah, I mean, I don't have anything.
Against people to take it. It's like neither do I.
I mean, I look at people that are competing at the highest
level at the. Olympia and the Arnold and like,
that's their. Livelihood and they may be
signing an early death sentence for themselves, but like that's
what they chose and they're on board with they understand the
consequences more power to them. You know, like, who am I to
judge but for like. People that are just.
Dipping their toe into the competitive.
World. They're totally healthy
otherwise. It's like, why would a coach
automatically push that as like the the default?
And it's super unfortunate because like you go that path,
you can't really. Reverse or back step that.
And what's unfortunate is, like I used to train at a Gold's Gym
in Washington when I lived there, and there was this guy
that was, I mean, he was. Like the dealer locally for all
the steroids. And stuff.
He's a super nice guy, like I enjoyed talking with him, but he
would come. In he was.
Big but like not. Like.
Super shredded, like not that impressive, like very impressive
like bigger than me, but like not like, oh, he could stand up
next to Ronnie Coleman and compete nothing like that.
And he would come in, he'd train hard, he'd be all happy and
jovial and happy, go lucky. And then like a week or two
would pass and he'd come back. I wouldn't see him and he'd come
back and he'd be just like super depressed, like taking
depressants and just like distraught.
And it's like you could literally time his emotions
based off whether he was cycling on or cycling off because like
he would deflate, he'd look smaller and you could just tell
he was. So his identity was so wrapped
up and like how he looked that whenever he was cycling off, it
just like depressed them. His hormones are constant in the
state of flux and. That's why a lot of.
Guys never even cycle off. They just have like this, I
don't even know what they call it another terminology, but like
running and gunning or that's not it.
It's, I don't even know the terminology, but like they'll
just stay on like a blast Cycle, I think is what they call it
when they're taking more of it and they just have like a cruise
cycle where it's taking like lower dosage of it, but they're
never cycling off because they don't want to go through that,
you know, withdrawal and like deflation period.
But to me, it's like I'm an extremist.
I'm like all in with everything I do.
So I did that. I wouldn't want to cycle off.
I'd be like, no, I don't want to lose 20 lbs.
I don't want to look less full, less vascular, less yoked, Like
I just want to keep blasting. And it's like you just like,
what's the point? Then it seems like it's a never
ending. Yeah, it's never ending downward
spiral. I was chasing the the carrot.
Yeah, and I feel like there's a lot of talk about TRT now, but a
lot of people are on TRT that don't need to be on TRT.
I was talking to my buddy yesterday, Chris, and he's on
TRT now and he and I've been friends since high school.
He's not a bodybuilder. He doesn't lift.
He's like same age as me, but he eats like crap.
I was. Just going to say it but he eats
like shit. Doesn't.
Get sleep too much.
Wasn't working out, wasn't sleeping.
Super stressed. He tried to own his own
business, got super stressed so like he lost all his sex drive,
energy, would wake up feeling tired.
So he changed his whole diet. He's doing carnivore now so I'm
proud of him there. He's been like 3 months in the
carnivore, lost a little bit of weight, but then he started
doing TRT and nothing crazy. I think he's doing like 200
meals a week, whatever. It's a pretty standard dose for
TRT, but it's like, man, you could have totally negated the
need for all of that if you'd just been healthy on the front
end, you know? So no, man, it's tough.
I think I mean, society in general is to a point where if
there's a shortcut, it's appealing to everybody, you
know, and I guess I shouldn't call it a shortcut.
It's maybe doesn't need to be the first option if you haven't
ever tried any of the other options.
You know, fix your diet, fix your sleep, fix your stress, all
that kind of stuff. Yeah, true that man.
Eat some kind of liver, do a week offense, see if it does
doubling effect like it did for me.
I get to eat a whole entire toasted almond coconut brick
today. We're sold out of those right
now. We are sold.
Out of those, but we're. Gonna be making more.
I work at the a couple weeks so I get one.
I found one we got like an employee stash of all the
flavors we do. But we also have a stash for the
mystery boxes. Which we do.
If you guys have ever seen the mystery box, the Keto Berg
mystery box, it's a pretty sweet deal.
You get 30 bricks a month at the deepest discount and it's
randomized and sometimes it's sold out flavors.
Oftentimes it's soda flavors. There's not gonna be any
blueberry muffins in there though.
There's like 1 blueberry muffin in existence and it's mine.
I would be willing to bet somebody else out there has 1
hidden. I used to.
I had one for probably. Well what year was that
blueberry muffin? That was a couple years back.
That would have been. Two years, three years 3.
No, it was before 23 I think, I think. 2022.
Maybe, yeah. I had one.
I even even moved here with it, like I've had it for years since
since Ketocon. And one day I'm like, I'm just,
I'm gonna eat this. And it was so good.
Yeah, that is a good one. We'll we'll bring it back.
But that protein specifically the lead time on that one is
like 18 weeks. So it's like I got a plan for
producing that one and we got some other exciting flavors.
We got a lot of other flavors in the works.
Yeah, yeah, 'cause I mean for, you know, this year is flying
by, dude. Like it's it's almost August.
Well, we have. We have flavors planned out
already almost through the end of the year.
We do. Yeah, we have.
Flavors literally planned at the end of the year.
I'm booking out podcasts in January right now.
That's crazy. So like it's.
Still middle of summer. We gotta slow this.
Thing down, I'm booking out podcasts in January already.
I got Nick Bear. Come on the podcast.
In a couple weeks that'll be cool.
And then I've got, we just signed up for meat stock again
next year, just put the deposit down on that sponsorship.
That's Gatlinburg, TN again. It's in Tennessee again.
It's a new venue, but I think it's still in.
Gatlinburg. Yeah, I think so.
So that'll be exciting. Meat stock was super awesome
this year. And then we'll be at Pack Your
Health in December. We're not going to a booth
there, but we'll go and I'll speak and all that good stuff.
Then I'm going to Tennessee again beginning of September for
low carb for better health speaking there and then two
weeks after, that's our show and then we also.
Got to get a retreat plan because.
We got to do. We did a retreat in February
with Bill Schindler and then. Then the second one was didn't
quite come together. Yeah.
The second one of the timing didn't work out.
It was going to be in Washington, but that one didn't
pan out. We'll probably do that one at
some point in the future, but I want to do it right.
And then the third quarter, it's mostly competition focus because
we got that in September, but we might do like a mini retreat of
sorts with that. And then we got to plan out a
retreat for fourth quarter. So that'll be good.
We might do it here. Northwest Arkansas.
I could do a hunting. Style retreat at the farm.
That'll be during hunting season.
I don't know. I got to figure that details out
on that one. Yeah.
All kinds of good stuff, yeah. And Speaking of competition
related details, we just met with Jerry yesterday, the owner
and operator of the new Dexafit location here in Farmington.
And we're going to have a pretty cool opportunity for all the
competitors or anybody else who's in town for the
competition. We're going to have an open
house for the competitors at his Dexafit location Thursday
evening before the comp and Friday morning before the comp,
and he's going to offer 50% off DEXA scans for anybody who wants
to show up and hang out and. And if you get a DEXA scan at
50% off, he's going to give you a free. 3D.
Body scan which is pretty slick as well.
And I've never heard of any other competition doing that.
That's pretty cool. And I feel like, you know, if
you're going to a competition, you're in peak week.
The day before the show, 2 days before.
The show is like the ideal time to get a DEXA scan because
there's just fewer variables in your.
Well, and you're, you're in, you're in stage conditioning.
You know, it'd be nice to have that data.
Then as you reverse back out of it, you'll have a reading.
And for your next show, you'll kind of know what you need to
beat in order to look better for stepping on a second time.
So yeah, I'm excited about offering them.
Jay's a cool dude. I like him a lot.
Yeah, he and he knows his stuff, like you can sit and talk to him
for forever. He he knows the insurance and
outs. We're actually going to go there
tomorrow, Thursday, tomorrow, because today's Wednesday and
we're going to go there and do AV O2 Max.
Which I've never done before. Me either, I'm a little scared
because I don't do a lot of cardio but at least it'll be a
baseline, you know? Then then if we do any other
cardio training or hiking or whatever, we can kind of
revisit, yeah. I did the RMR.
Test that he offered and that was insightful but with that one
you're basically just chilling in a chair for 15 minutes while
it calculates your resting metabolic rate, but you're
still. Hooked up to the same oxygen
machine. I don't know if it's the same.
I think it's the same machine. So yeah, it should be pretty
much the same setup. But then with the VO2 Max, he
said that that you're basically going to get like a a baseline
for 5 minutes and then he's gonna just steadily increase the
incline of the treadmill until you're going all out.
Until he, he says. Until you pretty much your tap
out. Yeah, and the whole point being
to figure out your lactate threshold and basically at what
point your body shifts from metabolizing fat for energy to
glucose. So yeah, I'm pretty curious
cause like he says that, you know, like clockwork, everybody,
they're gonna hit that threshold regardless.
That looks different for everybody, but they're going to
hit it. And the actual mirroring of it
is pretty consistent across the board where it's like
predominantly fat burning, predominantly fat burning and
then that drops off and then glucose picks up.
But what I'm curious to see is with us both having been, you
know, fat adapted following keto for 10 plus years, I would
imagine our. Rate.
Of leveraging fat metabolism exists for much longer than the
typical test subject before we go into glucose metabolism.
I think I think that's what's going to happen.
So yeah, it'll be, it'll be curious on the, on the RMR test
that I did, he said that he used me as an example because it
shows on one of the screens whether you're, you know,
burning predominantly fats or predominantly sugar.
And it's often times like a split, you know, like 4060 or
whatever, most people are carb burners.
And then he was like, you're the only one who've ever tested
that's 100% fat burning. So I'm like, heck yeah, that's
right, man. Well, see in 2021, I think it
was 21 when I was in prep with you, I ran several mud obstacle
courses like a Tough Mudder. I one of them was AI think it
was a 10K Tough Mudder. And I had no carbs prior to and
you know, everyone else is eating carbs and gel packs and
bananas and all that kind of stuff.
I had Keto Brick and Redmond relight in my out of the back of
my car before the race, and it was so weird because we all
started as a group. If you've ever done one of these
that you know, you go in waves, you start at the starting line
and they blow the horn and you all take off.
Well, everyone takes off and they're kind of at the same rate
and you're just kind of pacing yourself.
Everyone was starting to fall off and I felt like something in
me just opened up a whole new can of gasoline and I was able
to just RIP and it was like I didn't stop.
And it was. I had no carbs.
Everyone's stopping at the little things halfway through
and having a banana or a granola bar or whatever and a glass of
water and stuff like that to rehydrate and get some energy.
I just ran right past it and not a single person passed me, but I
felt like I passed so many people.
My energy was just unhinged. It was crazy, crazy.
Yeah, I mean, like I don't do a lot of endurance work, but like
when I ran that marathon, I did it totally fasted and I never
once bonked because like most people running marathons, like
they were all getting the jail packs and goos and stuff like
that or like car blown the night prior and my feet were wrecked
because I had went from never running to just signing up to do
a marathon. So don't recommend that.
But like from an energy standpoint or a fuel standpoint,
I felt totally fine the whole way through.
That's crazy. So.
So Speaking of energy, we've we're also, we just, we just
kind of teamed up with a cool dude in who's gonna run the
length of India. Yeah.
He's a fat adapted athlete. He's gonna leverage A ketogenic
nutritional protocol. Diagnosed with cancer.
He is a terminal cancer survivor.
I do believe he's got a brain tumor.
His story is absolutely phenomenal and he he's setting
out to run from the very northernmost tip of India to the
most southernmost tip for 80 days.
And he's going to run however many miles or kilometers per
day. And we're going to supply him
bricks to make that happen. So we're pretty stoked about
that. He's going to probably hop on
your podcast. Yeah, I'm going to give him the
podcast pre and post run. I want to kind of just hear the
whole story because you've been interacting.
I haven't really talked to him much, but I'm excited to flesh
this out. Yeah, we connected on social
media and he he's, he's a pretty cool guy.
And he's, he's going to do a whole bunch of, he's going to
document the whole thing. So he's going to have a whole
bunch of data, a whole bunch of content, a whole bunch of
interaction along the way. So I think that kicks off in
September. Nice, that's cool.
Speaking of podcasts, after this, I'm recording a podcast
with Jay Horley, who is a client of mine.
He's like one of the top level Brazilian Jiu Jitsu guys for his
weight and age. I think it's like ranked number
one or two in the world right now for his stats and he's type
1 diabetic. He does all of it with keto.
So like we've been like he still take insulin, obviously like
insulin bolus dose is minimized and he's had several
tournaments. He's got his biggest tournament
tournament in November, but we've been like manipulating his
macros and like kind of peaking him as we would a prep to like
make sure he makes weights. He competes at the under 84kg
and under category. But it's pretty cool man, Like
it's. Cool for me to see.
People in different athletes in different sports leveraging keto
and just like wiping the floor with all these people that are
like, oh, you got to have carbs, you got to have carbs.
You know, it's pretty cool. Wow, that is cool.
Heck yeah. So and that'll be like, I hadn't
got the podcast with him talking about Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Yesterday I had a podcast all about Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
I'm probably just going to take the gloves off and start doing
Brazilian next. Thing next thing you know will
be you'll be all in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Well, I said on the podcast yesterday, it's like, man, I
want to do it. I've dabbled in it like casually
with the crew here at the compound.
We got mats and everything. And I haven't like totally
jumped in because I know that when I do, I'm probably just
gonna be like, you know, just obsessed.
And I don't want it to conflict with my bodybuilding endeavors
'cause that's priority numero Uno from an athletic standpoint
for me. But Rigel, they've got like a
three to five year class. So I think it came into.
It. And I need to go like I went in
once before and they all seemed cool, like the Dojo seemed nice.
So I want it because we had Rigel in like swim lessons like
a year ago and he really liked that.
But it was like an hour and a half away to get there.
It's ridiculous. But this is like in
Fayetteville, so 25 minutes away and they have like 4 classes a
week for three to five age group.
So I might be able to get him into advance and like, let him
interact more with, you know, kids his age.
And like, I think I was talking on the podcast, this makes a lot
of sense. Like, you would appreciate this.
You never really did any team sports, or did you?
Well, it's, it's funny you're Speaking of this because when my
brother and I were kids, our parents put us into karate
lessons. So we were doing hands on
karate. My dad was in it too, so it was
like a family endeavour and it was awesome.
We learned a lot of, we learned a lot of discipline, respect,
self-control, you know, interaction with other kids.
There's a lot of cool core values that you build during
doing stuff like that. Yeah.
And I feel like like bodybuilding has done that for
me, like discipline, consistency, hard work.
But like, it's like team sports I did.
And like, I did baseball, basketball, but I never really
enjoyed them. And they would frustrate me.
Like I could be just hustling. Then I have a team member that
was like slacking and it was just like, you have to be a team
unified effort. And if you got somebody that's
like a bad apple, it just poisons the whale.
So I didn't like that aspect of team sports.
I like having a team, like I, I get that, you know, being the
leader of this team and having that kind of camaraderie, but
like I didn't get that in sports necessarily.
And then bodybuilding is on the complete OPS in the spectrum.
Like you're just, you know, independent solo, you're up
against you every single day. You reap what you sow.
But like, there's not really a team element at all with
bodybuilding. Just in the trenches, in the
darkness. If you slack, there's no one
picking up the slack. Yeah, but like I was talking
yesterday on this podcast and he made a good point.
He's like, cuz he did like high school wrestling and he's like
with wrestling, with jiu jitsu, it's an individual sport.
Like if you fail, it's because you messed up.
Like you can't point the finger anybody else.
But it's got a very strong team component because you're
learning these skills and grappling with all the members
on your team. So like if you win, it's because
they help prepare you to develop those skills.
So it's kind of like you're getting the best of both worlds.
You get the individual sport. You can't point the finger and
blame anybody else if you fail, but you get like the team
camaraderie because like they're helping you build yourself up
and vice versa. So it's it kind of like opened
my eyes to that functionality of it.
I'm like, man, that'd be perfect for Rigel, you know?
Yeah, that's that's a pretty great analogy.
So we'll see. I might, I might pull a trigger
and get him in involved. But then if he doesn't, it'd be
cool if like I started doing it too and we just like learned
together and grappled. But I need somebody bigger than
Rigel to roll with. So, OK, all right, all right.
We're going to compete against each other in 2027, so we'll be
in a bulk together. 26. So let's just grapple in 2026,
build up the hype for 2027's Face off, yeah?
We got to get some grappling content out there.
Yeah, that'd be good. That'd be good.
Chip. We may have to bring out the all
the MMA stuff again, man, that's good.
So that's the plan. Awesome.
That's the plan. Always thinking of something.
Always. What else we got on a pipeline,
man, How much? I got a podcast in a little bit
here, so probably cutting it short here soon.
How long we been rocking Chip? 33 minutes 33.
Minutes, that's pretty good. Pretty good.
A little short side, but pretty good.
But all that to say, excited about Rock Town this weekend.
We'll give you all an update on how that goes when we record on
Monday and then when we record the work next week, we'll be
talking about some things in the pipeline.
Got a couple little secrets coming forward.
Yeah. Things in the works.
One thing that we I don't think we've mentioned in the work is
that maybe we have, I don't know, but Chip just finished all
the revamped media content for the Savage system.
So all of the seven phases are now done, polished and ready to
rock. And they look select.
Yeah, those are nice videos. So now we're going to start.
Yeah, kudos to Chip. So now we're going to start
doing all the missing appendix stuff, tackling, posing first,
for those that are in prep or about to be in prep or wanted to
highlight posing, we'll start tackling all the appendix videos
around the different divisions and classes and things to look
for with the posing. So yeah, that's coming soon.
Coming soon. Always a million things going
on. Always.
We need to hire somebody. More people, More people.
All right, that's a wrap Gregoron.
All right, adios.