Rolling. Rolling, rolling, rolling.
Get them doggies. Rolling doggies.
Is that is that the lyrics? Is it not doggies?
Doggies. What is it, Chip?
Doggies. It is doggies.
Yeah, See, I'm right. We're definitely starting the
podcast there, man. Little me singing, rolling.
You're singing old Cowboys. You're singing Limp Bizkit.
Yeah, that's probably where I'm at.
I'm definitely thinking old Cowboys.
Speaking of old cowboy songs. So Roger was on a a John Wayne
kick for a while, which was good.
And you know, we watched John Wayne.
It's like stuff that's not super stimulating.
We don't watch any cartoons. Nothing super animated.
Have you ever seen the Waltons? The Waltons?
Yeah, Sounds familiar. It's on Netflix, not Netflix.
It's on Amazon Prime Video, which I had super old, super
old. Like it's set in the 30s during
the depression. No, it's not black and white.
It's color, but it's I mean it's super old, but it's basically
about this family of I think 7 kids, the parents and then their
grandparents all living in the same house during the Great
Depression. But like every single episode is
like 40 minutes long and it's all about like a life lesson.
But we've been watching like one of those in the evenings on the
weekends and like it's perfect for Ryan's because it's not over
stimulating and it's just good old feel good movies, you know,
like like all the stuff today. It's just like you watch it and
you like, your heart rate probably jumps up tenfold,
whereas like with the Waltons, it's like, OK, I feel like I
should go need some bread and plant a garden, you know, not
need bread for me, but you get what I'm saying.
But yeah, I don't really want much quality, though.
Quality, though. Today was our first full body
routine together. I did full body yesterday
without you, but I didn't today. We did full body.
Was this your first full body? Well, we've done it before in
the past. Yeah, first, first time in this
rotation. And this year, yeah.
How'd you think you like it? I'm excited.
We got just under £50,000 of volume, so more more total
volume. Probably because we're superset
and everything. Yep, which is a plus.
Which I, I really enjoy the Super setting that way because
you're actually working on posing muscles back-to-back.
So A/B, A/B, A/B, A/B and they're.
You keep your heart ready, keep your pump going the whole time.
I've always liked super setting. I just want to not keep you
waiting. So I've got a tendency to like
rush through my set so I'm able to help you load the bar where I
need to like slow down and actually get full contraction
and squeeze because I feel like that's I've always just kind of
gone quickly through a workout, but I want to actually really
start going slower, especially on the east eccentric portion of
the movement. Well, these will work pretty
good because one of us will be doing exercise one and the other
one of us will be doing exercise 2 and then we flip flop and we
got in. We got in quite a bit of How
many sets do you think we did this morning?
Every rotation we did was typically five sets.
So we started with pull downs, super setting pull downs like a
high. It was kind of like a high row
more so than pull downs, but like that with chest press,
chest press flat with hammer strength.
We did five sets of that and then we went over to what was
the next time we did shoulder. Press, we did overhead press,
seated overhead press. Yeah.
And. RDLS yeah, split squats and
those kick my butt, man. Split squats are.
Brutal. They always murder me and.
Then we did five sets of them and then we did arms.
Bis and Tris. Bis and Tris superset and five
sets of that cables and then we did calves and ABS and we
haven't really done calves and ABS at all until now because now
we've got time because we're superset and everything.
I'm excited to put some more core work in there because we've
kind of been, I wouldn't say neglecting, but because you work
your core as a secondary. But I used to do core every
single time I lifted when I was in a full body, and since we've
been doing the body part split for the past two or three
months, I haven't done any dedicated core work, so that'll
be good. We'll probably rock this all the
way through, well, at least through my first row, that's how
many weeks out that's. 14 I think when your post was. 14
weeks, so that's, you know, three months.
I could say you're getting leaner though for sure man.
Every time, Every Monday we take pictures like you've always had.
More like a block your midsection.
That's the last to lean out and it's such a pain in the ass
because it's just like anytime I look in the mirror and like, you
know how we, we just self assess each other.
We have like a body dysmorphia and we always hone in on the
thing that we we dislike the most.
That's where my eyes go boom right into my abs and my
midsection. Just it, it's, it's thick.
I kind of just have a wide, wide trunk and I can see my love
handles are getting skinnier and skinnier your.
Skin's getting thinner, too. Skin is getting thinner.
I'm holding less water. You know, in certain areas my
shoulders are leaning out. I can tell my face is leaning
out. I'm seeing vascularity in some
areas and all that kind of stuff.
So it's it's working. It's working.
I. Can tell that I'm still fat.
Maybe you're in offseason. You're just in offseason
condition. You're not fat if you look at
the general population and you call yourself fat.
I was doing those bicep curls today.
I was looking in the mirror and I mean I can still see every
like quad separation. So like, I don't, I'm not fat,
but I just. You feel fat in comparison to
where you know you can be. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
But I feel like once I get down to like one 79180, I'll be in a
much better place. I feel like I've just got my
midsection is too blocky. Like I don't like where it's at
now. I'm I don't want to start
sacrificing strength, but like when I was £200, like I wasn't
any stronger at 200 lbs than I am now at 187.
So it's like that, it's probably like 15 lbs heavier before I
started leaning down and it's like those 15 lbs didn't
contribute to additional strength.
So why am I carrying it around, you know?
So now you know. Now you know.
Now you know what else is new, man?
You spent the weekend it. Went to Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City. Awesome.
You got a little. Hung out with some friends and
family of Caitlin's. Friends and family drank a
little bit, you said right? Had a few seltzers.
Have you ever had happy dads? Don't know what that is.
OK, it's I've never heard of it, but it apparently it's pretty
widespread and pretty popular, but.
They're happy. Dads yeah, it's just a 12 ounce
can. It's just 100 calorie seltzer,
very minimal sugar, very minimal carb, like maybe 1 or 2G.
And they're just like a real light carbonated seltzer.
What's the calories on a can of that?
100. 100. Calories, so not obviously
there's no protein in their fat content.
There's, I think I want to say one or two grams of carbs.
So you just subtracted that from your color or gluten for the
day? I honestly didn't, so don't tell
me. And you're slacking.
Slacking. Well, we're doing.
But my food? But my food choices were spot
on. You should have seen I packed a
cooler. We threw it in the trunk.
I had, I had a hard couple packages of hard boiled eggs.
I had a couple pounds of ground beef.
I had meat sticks, string cheese, miniature keto bricks,
several packets of Pickles, sliced cucumbers.
I mean it was like it was full blown prep mode besides having a
couple seltzers. And I thought, yeah, you know, I
probably won't do any alcohol as we get closer and closer to
prep. But it was fun, nice.
Everyone was kind of just socializing, having a great
time. There's a big cookout at her
dad's house and. We, yeah, you got to be
versatile, flexible, you know, malleable in that regard.
Like when I went to Kansas on Saturday to pick up all that
stuff for the show, it was like 8 hours of driving and I forgot
a brick. I forgot to bring the.
Brick. And I was driving.
I always have. You should got to have a.
Back, I know like me what, I should just have something in my
backpack at all times, but I'm like, man, what am I going to
do? So I went to a gas station and I
bought a bag of those Dukes sausage links and those are
pretty clean. Like I got the green chili ones.
And I think a whole bag of that is like 740 calories or
something. I think maybe 6 grams of total
carbs or something minimal and then a little bit more fat than
protein. Those are super tasty, super
salty. So I had that and then I was
still hungry so I went to 1 gas station.
They did not have any hard boiled eggs.
So I went to another one and I got a bunch of hard boiled eggs.
But you know, you got to be careful, man, because like you
look at the salt packets that they have in those gas stations
and they're all full of the iodized.
Salt. Yeah, so I've got dextrose in
there, so I don't want sugar in my salt, I just want salt.
But yeah, driving in a pinch. The Dukes and hard boiled eggs
are at a gas station. Pretty much every gas station
and you can make it work. I feel like you can make gas
station food work if you know what to look for and you have
you have goals. I just don't ever feel all that
great afterwards. No, But like, you're sitting in
a vehicle, you get all that influx of sodium.
You're probably not drinking enough water.
You're certainly not moving in there.
So like you can make the macros work, but like you just feel
like blah the rest of the. Day, but if you can, if you can
do better to control the variables that you do have
control over, which is what you're jamming down in your
mouth hole, you can do that much better for sure.
Whereas people sometimes would use that as an excuse to just
eat shit food because oh, that's all the gas station had.
But when you look around and you can grab like cleaner meat
sticks, cheese sticks, hard boiled eggs, you know, you can
grab some celery, you can grab some cucumber, some of those
cleaner things instead of just going for like the Snickers and
you know, the grab bag of Doritos, all that crap that's on
like the end caps of the aisles, that's just trash usually, you
know? So if you know what you're
looking for and you have a reason, you know you want to get
healthier, you want to watch what you eat, you want to
improve, whatever aspect of your life you can, you can do it.
Yeah, you don't have to. Fall victim to it.
Totally agree ma'am. Speaking of bricks that I did
not have on that trip, we do have a new flavor drop in this
weekend. Sunday.
Yeah, and this flavor it we, it's kind of crazy because we
just did a super small production run of it kind.
Of just like a sample batch. Yeah, like a sample batch.
So we're only going to have like just over I think 2000 bricks
probably, which is much, much lower than our typical launches.
But we're kind of sending it out into the ether to see what
people think, see if we want to, you know, produce that on a more
regular basis. But it's pretty freaking good.
That is good. I had one this morning after
working out and the textures just totally different.
With the tallow, it's amazing. Yeah, I was worried on Friday
when we when we produced them. You weren't here on Friday, but
that Tyler, that last batch of Tyler we got was a lot softer
and I was a little bit worried about it not setting up.
But they set up beautifully. They banged out perfectly.
They packaged just fine. They taste amazing.
So we got a new flavor. I guess we can tell the the
podcast. Well, First off, for the folks
listening, they might not know what bang out means.
So it's a very scientific. Very scientific, very
scientific. When we bang them out, we just
slap them out of the molds. Yeah.
So we pour them into the molds, we put them in a freezer.
The next day we bang them out of the molds.
So our our production process is like 3 main pillars.
We got batching of the ingredients.
Prepping the ingredients in their appropriate proportions
and we. Got mixing.
Yeah, we got mixing and pouring where we deposit them into the
molds and then we got banging out and packaging, which is the
third leg of that triad. So they banged out.
Beautiful. They did bang out beautifully
banging. Beautifully banging and freaking
tasty. So tallow cookie dough is going
to be dropping. Very small teaser test
production run and we'll hear what the people think, if they
like it or not. But I like it.
Yep. Well, and we have.
Do we dare say we have maybe one more?
We do have more in the pipeline, but it's a little ways off.
So don't hold your breath for that one.
Don't. Don't wait for that.
One, but what we're doing, we're we're trialling some things.
We are trying. We just kind of see what the
people like. Yeah, it's kind of crazy though.
Somebody sent me an e-mail last week with an article about.
So for anybody, I'm sure everybody's kind of up to date
on this, but we transitioned to tallow kind of at a necessity
because the cost of cacao butter has gone through the roof.
Like chocolate prices in the like quality chocolate is
increased significant in stores. I don't know if like Nestle and
Hershey's and stuff has increased because they just
start using cheaper ingredients. But they've always used cheap
crap. Ingredients, yeah, they've
always used this. They're they're doing like
chocolate, artificial flavor, like like substitutes.
They're not even using real chocolate.
They're using like alternatives. But like real chocolate that is
made using cacao has increased in price.
Chip was saying that the one he normally gets at Walmart is up
like another dollar per bar from what it was because the cost of
cacao has just 6X over the last year.
So we kind of dodged that bullet.
Not really dodged it because I'm still paying the higher pricing,
but we tried to distribute our cost by transitioning to some of
our flavored using grass finished tallow, which was good.
It's still expensive. It's still more expensive than
what I was originally paying for a cacao, but it's cheaper than
the current cost of cacao. But now, because RFK is putting
all of this into the market for benefits of tallow, you've got,
you know, Steak and Shake. What are the other restaurants?
There's a lot of them actually. There's a, there's a restaurant
in my hometown up in northern Minnesota that they have got 3
or 4 locations and they're, they just announced they're going to
be swapping on all of their Friars to 100% tallow.
So I mean like, I'm totally in support of it.
Yeah, it's super awesome. But I think you're going to see
more and more restaurants like grabbing the reins and just
making the switch because it's just that much better, and the
people who understand it are going to value it.
Like for me, if I was back home choosing a restaurant to go eat
at, I would likely give a little bit more attention to the people
who decided to do that. For sure, for sure.
I'm in full support of it. However, those restaurants are
not likely using the highest quality form of tallow.
Like they're not getting the grass finished tallow probably.
They're probably getting bottom of the barrel tallow that was
about to be thrown out and now they're going to render it down
and make tallow out of it. But still significantly better
than vegetable oil. What I'm worried about is that
basically doing the same thing to what I just got done, beaten
with cacao butter. In which case all of my tallow
costs increase as well, which would not surprise me and given
the nature of my luck with things like that.
But we're adaptable. We overcome.
That's the whole manifesto for this year, 2025 is adapt and
overcome. So we'll figure it out.
So next on the agenda is the Savage Farm.
I'm telling you, man, like I just need to like buy.
I had a had a call on Saturday when I was driving to Kansas
with the person I went to Brazil with, Molina, thinking about
buying a farm in Brazil. There's like a 65 acre farm
there that would produce enough cacao for our own production so
we can be totally vertically integrated.
And then, you know, while I'm at it, I might as well just have a
freaking cattle farm. I was going to say, you might as
get some livestock and then you're rocking your own tallow
and you're rocking your own cacao butter.
I'd have to get like a USDA certified processing facility
for butchering, slaughtering the rendering, all things beef
products. So.
You know it would be, you know it would be way easier and way
less expensive. Why don't we just start putting
in like canola? Oil or something.
Canola oil, we could do that. We could put in some tapioca
fiber, we can put in some. Alzodextrin, we can put in some
sucralose, we can put in some. What else is most of the other
crappy bars doing? We could have some fibers and
fillers and. Fibers and fillers.
You know, cut corners. All that jazz.
I just don't want to do that, man.
Don't want to do that. I won't do that.
Yep. What else is doing exciting bro?
I'm excited for the for the workout.
We talked about the new workout split, so it's always cool to
switch that up after so many months.
I'm excited for that. Prep is going good.
Overall, life is just good. We're going to go on a team day
in a couple weeks. Yeah, we're taking everybody
camping, so that'll be fun. Yep.
We can break in your new Blackstone Grill.
Griddle. Griddle.
What are you going to cook for a song?
No, probably not. Probably.
Yeah, maybe. Maybe we'd do some omelets.
Omelets. That'd be good.
Hash Browns. Prep the macros on that.
No hash Browns. No hash Browns.
No, I'm excited. That'll be awesome because I'll
get all of the little utensils and stuff and little spray
bottle and whatever you need. I do need to go camping.
I was thinking just the other day, it's like since we're
having UPS doing a lot of our shipping now instead of USPS,
we're not even using the rig to go to the post office.
I need to take that rig. I need to get it fixed up for
camping. I have like a star link in there
or something. It'd be cool.
That way I can stay on top of any calls that I have if I'm on
the road. Use that for like mobile
podcasting. And then just when I'm not using
it for work, take my family camping.
There you go. You know, every every other
Friday or something, leave, take them, pick them up, go camping.
That'd be sweet. And you know if you put a keto
brick logo or something on the side, you can write off the
entire trip. There you go.
Because you're you're advertising.
There you go. I feel like camping's good
though, man. Like camping.
Yeah, we got to figure out how to do that with our workouts.
But though, because I would, if I go camping, I'm not going to
be in the gym in the morning. So we need to make that our off
day. It could be an off day, it could
be. I mean you'd you'd probably go
hiking. Yeah, doing doing something to
be lifting. No, that could be your active
rest, you know, off day, but. We right now we've got Thursday
morning, says our cardio slash off day.
But with this split, it's not quite as crucial.
That's true. Because we're hitting everybody
part pretty much daily, so frequency is up.
Yeah, So we can be totally flexible because you got a
couple trips coming up. I've got that meat stock that
I'm speaking at in May. Yep, which you're going to go to
that, go to that. So hopefully we can find a gym
there close by and train there, stay on top of our split.
That'd be good. I'm excited for meat stock.
I've been talking to some of the other speakers, the promoter.
That's going to be a pretty cool vibe.
Yeah, that's cool. I'm excited.
It's. Going to be I think that's all
outside. It looks like it because there's
a big retreat component to that where everyone's kind of hanging
out in cabins and then the actual convention or like the
structured events is going to be, is it just Saturday for
Sunday or? I think the conference itself is
Saturday and Sunday, but then the retreat is the yeah,
Thursday, Friday, I think a couple extra days.
But then Rigel's birthday is on Sunday, so we're going to stay
another day and come back on Tuesday and then find something
cool to do as a family on Monday.
That'd be cool. So Gatlinburg's pretty cool,
though. There's all kinds of cool things
to do out there. It's got like a nice little old
school scenic vibe to it. So I'm excited to be nice.
And my anniversary of Crystal's coming up too.
I got to figure out something sweet to do for her.
How many years on the spot don't answer. 6 I think maybe 7-6 I
think 6 We got married in 20/19. What would that be that?
'D be 6 years that. 'D be 6 years.
OK, so six years. What should I do?
She doesn't listen to this podcast so we can she.
Doesn't listen to it. I don't think so.
She's going to probably listen to this one now.
Maybe. Probably show up in the caption.
Yeah, I got to think of something, something good.
I thought about taking them out to a play.
You ever go to a place? Not I have been to like a couple
like theater dinners but not too many.
Yeah, I thought about taking them to a play and then taking
her out to dose or something afterwards to get a big old
steak. Yeah, I've heard dose is
awesome. Dose is awesome.
I told you to go to dose. I know you did.
You haven't been there yet. No, it's good.
It'd be hard to track the macros on it.
It's hard to track any time you go out to eat.
Yeah, I mean, you, you can. You can be pretty close if you
just do like a steak and vegetable or something, if you
bring a scale and you measure it out, but you also have to
consider that's cooked weight. You don't know how accurate the
kitchen is and all that kind of stuff.
But I guess you could, I mean, you could be that guy that asked
the waitress or waiter, hey, I want this steak, but could you
please weigh this steak before you cook it?
Yeah, because sure, they got food scales back.
They gotta have scales back there.
If not, you can bring your own scale and say take this back to
the kitchen. Just bring this slab out here.
I want to weigh it. I want to touch it.
Yeah, I went. I went to this barbecue joint a
few months back, meeting some of Crystal's friends and I was
tracking everything, brought my food scale and it was just
brisket. I was just gonna get brisket and
and BBQ joints. They charged by the pound, you
know. So the waitress came out, we
were all super nice to her. And then I took my food and I
ordered like a pound and 1/2 for Rigel and I and I weighed out my
food and she got like super offended.
And the waitress. Oh, like you like maybe you
thought they were cheating you or something.
Yeah, yeah. That's what she thought.
I'm sure she probably was like trying to she saw me trying to
verify that I got a pound of meat that I ordered.
Like you're just one of those guys.
Yeah. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, I
totally trust you. I just need to weigh this out
and get my son. What I can't eat.
So you had to clarify that because I didn't even think
about it, you know, like to me it was just second nature.
What did you guys go to? Is that rights?
Or no, No rights is great, but this one was, I think it's
called Brotherhood or something like that.
It's up in Rogers. It's pretty close to Caitlin I
think. Have you ever been on the rights
in? Rogers Yeah, OK, They've got two
locations, or three. Not sure but I haven't been to
that one. That one's good with my.
Mom and brother in town. Johnson's my favorite one,
though, the one right next to the gym.
That one's like the first one, and then they open the other
one. The OG was just a a little
travel trailer shack thing. Interesting.
Then they opened up that house. Then they expanded that house.
Then they moved to the north. Like the Rogers, Bentonville
area. Yeah, it's a good BBQ.
Yeah, we're gonna go to. That one I haven't been there
yet. Yeah, making me hungry, man.
I had my brick first thing this morning after working out and
now I'm not supposed to eat until 6:00 PM tonight and you're
hungry and I'm hungry. I was talking to somebody at
church yesterday. He's a bigger guy.
He was like 280 and he's dieting down right now and he's now he's
like 245 or something like that. He was thinking about getting
the 220, but he's hungry right now.
He's been dining for a while. He's at like 2500 calories and
my man 2 because what he didn't do with my protocol I didn't do
keto didn't do any stuff but he probably was at 280 and then
automatically slashed the 2500 from the start I would assume.
So he's not like stair stepping it down or anything, no.
I don't think so. Solid deficit.
Yeah, but I mean, like, man, that's got to be miserable.
That's what most people do is they just like say, okay, this
is my maintenance intake, let's take away 500 calories, 800
calories, and we'll just ride it out into a plateau.
And that's what he was saying. He said he'd plateaued now and
he was like on the fence about dropping it below 2500 calories.
I'm like, man, how many calories were up for grabs that you
didn't need to take? You didn't need Yeah, you when
you overdo it at the very, very onset.
Yeah. Yep.
Well, that's that's dieting culture right there.
Find your maintenance and slash 500 calories off and that's what
you eat. And then you're hungry and
you're deprived and you're you know.
And I feel like that's why a lot of people are really
heavy-handed with the stimulants, like the pre
workouts, the energy drinks, way too much caffeine.
Like I, I was doing that. I was guilty of that.
I had too much caffeine that, you know, on a daily basis.
And now I just limit myself to usually 2 cups of coffee.
Call it good. I do a pre workout, the Redmond
pre workout, but I think that's Pretty Little decent on
caffeine. It's like. 15150 I think it's
150 it. Might be 120.
They've got a, they've got a boosted version of their
electrolytes that's 125 or 150. That's the one I've had, yeah.
I mean most pre work. It's at 350 now.
Oh man, there's some that are 400 or higher.
And I, I actually looked at it back in the day when I was more
like bro science car base. And I at that time I think I was
doing probably 800 to 1000 milligrams of caffeine a day,
like pre workouts and energy drinks and all that crap.
And I just can't. I can't do that anymore.
When I was at the old building, put it in long hours man.
And my prep, I think this was in 2020, I was in that prep right
before I got cancelled with COVID.
I counted all my caffeine and it added up to 3000 milligrams a
day. But I don't know if that was
super accurate because I was also drinking those Death Wish
coffees and I think their advertised caffeine is much
higher than what its actual caffeine content is.
I think because like I didn't feel that much different with
that versus a normal cup of coffee.
So I don't know that it was actually 3000.
That's what everything added up to.
Because your heart was numb at the time.
Probably, probably, yeah, that's way too much.
That's a lot. Do not recommend now.
I mean, what's a cup of coffee like 60 milligrams?
Yeah, I think 80 milligrams, like 50 to 80 or something.
Yeah, depending on the size of coffee and whatever.
Yeah, I do a pretty large cup of coffee.
So yeah, you use like 7 pods don't you?
At one time? No, I just.
Do no well with my espresso maker.
It's like it's a two shot porta filter and I'll do four shots
per cup of coffee, OK. And I think it's 60 milligrams
per shot I think. OK, so you're.
Is that right? A little over 200.
I think it's 460 milligrams per shot, right?
Yeah. So OK, just over 200 then, which
is not obscene, No, Compared to three. 1000, the average energy
drink now that you go to find at the store is 200.
Yeah, 300 somewhere there. So I feel good about that.
Yeah, I feel good about that. How's your sleep?
Good, my sleep is awesome. I'm jealous.
Yeah. I've been sleeping better this
last little bit. I think this these next two
weeks are supposed to be in Washington, but I'm not.
I'm here. I don't have any calls because I
was supposed to be in Washington.
I'm going to try and sleep more these next two weeks.
You should if you make a conscience, conscience,
conscience. That's a tongue twister.
Conscious. If you make a conscious effort
to get in some solid quality sleep, yeah, it impacts
everything. Because I feel like these next
two weeks, I'm just going to focus on creative things that I
don't often times have the time to focus on.
So I've got like themes for each day where it's just a creative
block of working on that themed topic for the day.
And I feel like with that, I'll be way more productive.
And I kind of set myself up for success after this two weeks, 10
is over. But I feel like from a creative
standpoint I need to sleep more so that I can actually think
creatively as opposed to being dragon butt all day long.
Yeah, without sleep, your body, I mean everything in life just
gets affected. Just yeah, a little bit.
But today we've got to work on to work on that tallow cookie
dough, and then we're going to knock out a few proofs, e-mail
proofs, social proofs in preparation for that launch.
Yep. What else we got on the docket
for? I'm trying to get organized.
I'm trying to just clean up my office.
We got a bunch of Monday related stuff, like I've got a
newsletter to to proof and send out advertising, got some
graphics regarding just the flavour launch, that kind of
stuff. It'll be good, it'll be good.
You miss your Tesla kind of bouncing around.
Right now, yeah, I do miss certain aspects of the Tesla I
had. I had a Model S, it was the high
performance, all-wheel drive, double motor, had the Ludicrous
plus mode and all that kind of stuff.
So it was fast as shit. I'm missing all you missed the
fastest shit. That's why I got it.
A lot of don't get me wrong, there's a lot of cool like, you
know, reasons to own one. And a lot of people are not
super fond of like the go green and drive electric because
electric is dirty energy. You know how it's produced and
all. That's a whole different topic.
I could care less how the energy got into my car, but the first
time I drove a Tesla was like insane.
So from that point forward I said, all right, make this a
mission of mine at some point I want to buy a sweet Tesla.
And my self-employed home inspection business was doing
pretty good. And I'm like, you know what?
Screw it, Yolo. I have my inspection vehicle.
I'm just going to get I'm going to find a used Tesla.
If I find the one that I want, I'm going to get it.
And I ended up finding a pre owned 1 owner lease return or
whatever. Model S 2016 had free unlimited
supercharging for second owner only.
So I was the second owner, which means I could have plugged into
any of the superchargers across the entire country for 100%
free. So it's like driving for free
gas. So I would drive everywhere and
I'd pull off, get a supercharger, no cost, and I'd
be on my way. Why do they do that for second
owners only? Well, there was, it was a promo
and Tesla does a promo every now and then where you get free
unlimited Supercharging. And usually I think the way it's
structured is like if you buy a Tesla as the owner, you like
you, you actually custom order it, you qualify during that
promo period. And then that particular feature
only transfers one time. So like if you sell it or you
trade it back and then they resell it, it only gets
transferred once and then once it goes to the third owner, that
particular feature falls off. So then the next owner, the one
I traded mine in, the person whoever bought it ended up not
having free supercharging. So then that functionality just
disappeared. So they have to pay every time
they go to the supercharger. What does that cost?
I don't know, I mean, it's it's, it can fluctuate.
It's it's crazy because it's like it's just electricity and
depending on where you are, like it's kind of like gas.
It fluctuates. You know, if you're going to
have to California, it's going to be way, way, way more.
If you're, you know, in bum Egypt, you know, it's going to
be a lot cheaper. So that that was one of the
aspects I missed that because it was free unlimited
supercharging. I missed the acceleration.
I missed the technology. Like I could pull up in my
driveway, grab my groceries and get out of the car and the car
would pull into the garage and shut the garage behind itself.
It's crazy. Like the kind of.
Yeah. And then every day you wake up
and you go out and you hop into your car and it's like
preconditioned, meaning it's either warmed up for you or
cooled down for you based on what time you can schedule it.
You can schedule when it's going to charge itself.
You can, I mean, it would download updates over the air
updates regularly. So you'd hop in and be like, oh,
guess what? Your car can now do this, this
and this because it just downloaded an update and
installed it while you were sleeping.
It's pretty wild. It's like driving a big
supercomputer. The reason I even asked.
Is because, yeah, I could talk. It was fun.
I loved that car, but I could talk about it forever.
Well, we're talking about proofs like e-mail proofs, and I've got
to do some social ad proofs too. But I keep seeing all these
Facebook ads, I guess not ads, but like posts about the, the
cyber truck, like falling apart, like the panels coming off.
Oh. Probably some of the build
quality on those things is. Is not the best, not too great.
Which is wow man like I can't imagine getting a a cyber truck
for truck purposes. I could get it for a car as a
car, but I wouldn't get it for a truck.
There's a lot of them down here. There is a lot of them.
I only saw a one or two maybe cyber trucks when I lived in
Minnesota. And now I see them freaking
everywhere and they're all like wrapped.
They got like bright white ones, blue ones, black ones, They're
customized, they're wrapped in like advertising decals and
there's just, I see them everywhere now, but.
I don't know people, those have got a pretty quick zero to 62,
right? Anything electric does, yeah,
it's you can't even explain it. Like if I were to try to tell
you like it's fast, you don't even know what fast is until
you're in an electric vehicle. Like if you, if you punched, I
brought it to the, I brought it to a Speedway to a drag strip
when they had like street legal night where you could just bring
whatever car you want and race your buddies and like, you know,
check in and pay a fee and they put a number on your window and
you just, you have to have a helmet and all that kind of
stuff. And that was just smoking muscle
cars. It was crazy.
And it's so quiet that you don't even hear it.
I would sneak up like I would drive through a parking lot and
people wouldn't even hear me coming.
And they'd like, get out of the way because they don't.
You don't hear it. And it's just an awkward silent
acceleration that you, you have to feel.
My mom blacked out in it. Really like when you
accelerated. With it, like I punched it and
then you put it into like there's a cheetah stance mode
where it actually raises the rear suspension just a little
bit and drops the front end so that it can accelerate just that
much quicker. And then you, you, you
precondition, you heat up the battery so it can unlock its
full capacity in a split second and it has upgraded cables.
I forget whatever else, but when they installed or downloaded
this ludicrous mode into mine, it was a 10 or $15,000 upgrade
and had to swap out some of the battery cables so that it could
transfer electricity that much quicker.
That's wild. It is so wild.
I think, I think the zero to 60, no, the quarter mile, I got a
quarter mile and like I wanna say like close to 11 seconds.
That's pretty quick. It's for something that is just
completely stuck, like you can go get groceries in it, Yeah.
See, I'm like old school with everything I do.
It's like, I wanna get like an old.
There's a 1969 charger right down the road from here and it's
like, like one of those barn funds, like it's in this like,
yeah, canopy, like the front windows broke and it's all
covered in dust. Just like a 1969 charger that he
claims. I wouldn't talk to him.
I saw him out there working on the yard, so I went over there
and asked him about it. But he says that it was running
when he parked it. Of course, I'm sure that's what
they all say. You know, probably was, who
knows how long that was, but it's like, that'd be my style,
man. Get like that old, old hunk of
junk and then just like totally refurbish it and have that,
that. Would be cool.
Yeah, Yeah, 'cause there's a difference, definitely a
difference between like the old muscle cars and their
acceleration and like hearing the throaty exhaust and like
stomping the gas and burning the tires.
And then like these little electric sedans that just go,
you know, and they just, they like, it's totally different.
I feel like the the charger would probably be more savage
than the Tesla for me to be cruising.
Around for sure, but I. Didn't think of well, we're on a
totally different tangent front. Anything we normally talk about.
But shoot man, we got a lot of stuff to do today.
We should. So let's boogie, rock and roam.
We probably don't need to keep telling people where to find you
because they thought they already know, right?
I was going to say maybe we should just throw because
everyone knows you. We could just throw my info in
the caption or something, you know?
Yeah, I mean, definitely everybody.
Follow Greg Keto Greg, 80 on Instagram.
Keto Greg 80 Yeah, it's, it's funny because we just one last
little tidbit here. We were in Oklahoma City this
past weekend and we ran into some Caitlin's friends, family
and everything. And we happened to be just
wandering around the in the liquor store trying to find
these happy dads or seltzers or whatever.
And a gal walked in and Caitlin knew her 'cause it's obviously
her hometown. And so they were just chatting
and whatever, and then somebody else came in and they were
related and they were like, Oh my God, nice to see you.
We're going to be at your dad's tomorrow.
And then she's like, this is my boyfriend Craig.
And she's like, Oh yeah, I already follow him.
He's Keto Greg. So that's pretty funny.
Small town vibes man. It was none of those tangent.
I woke up from a dream the other day and it was the weirdest
thing because it was like I was with the dream.
Made no sense. The whole dream was me trying to
figure out where to put a shower, which is kind of what
we're doing in our gym. Oh yeah.
So that made sense I guess. But it was like in this rundown
house with like dilapidated walls, but I was like trying to
work with people to figure out where to put the shower.
But it was all people from high school.
So like my everybody I was surrounded by was people from
high school. And I didn't go to my 10 year
reunion because it was during the pandemic.
So I think I still did. So, like, I have no idea what
these people are doing. I haven't kept in touch with any
of them except one. And it's just Wildman like small
towns, like, 'cause I came from a super small town, so everybody
knows everybody. Most people probably still
there. Yeah, man, it's funny.
Life's a funny thing. It just passes passes by.
Keeps going no matter what. That's the truth.
All right, man, let's get some stuff done.