1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,040 What flavor you got today I. Got a CRAN Raspberry. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,040 I bought the the variety pack of the new flavors. 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,000 I'm a I'm a fan of CRAN Raspberry. 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,320 I think that Redmond CRAN Apple is my favorite. 5 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:12,760 That's a good one. That's a good one. 6 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,680 I think that was a seasonal kind of a yeah, small batch release 7 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:20,920 of that. Yeah, I like it, man. 8 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,800 We have today's Tuesday. We didn't film on Monday because 9 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:26,640 I was travelling. Did the March. 10 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,000 Did the 50 mile March. We can talk about that. 11 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:31,120 We got some competition stuff talking about. 12 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:32,840 We just did a launch. We had a busy weekend, man. 13 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,080 It was eventful. It was eventful. 14 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,080 On a lot of different. Topics Let's start with the 15 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,040 March because my feet are feeling it. 16 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:49,400 So I went to Nebraska, linked up with Jamie Seaman, her husband 17 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:56,400 Ben Seaman and Joe Wilson and Jonathan Shane came with us and 18 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,200 we did the 50 mile March for veterans. fiftymilemarch.org. 19 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:05,720 We basically marched from Lincoln to Omaha, NE through the 20 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,400 night. We start at 2:00 PM and we 21 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,320 finished 22 hours later through the night. 22 hours represents 22 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:16,440 22 vets that take their lives daily and we raised over 23 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,840 750,000. I'm not sure what the number is 24 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,640 right now, but it was 750,757 thousand or something last time. 25 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:23,240 Look, that's. Great. 26 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:24,360 But it was more than just you guys. 27 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:25,960 It was a whole. It was 100 and some people. 28 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:32,240 Yeah, there was 166 of us that March and I think we had like 29 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:36,200 78910 that dropped out throughout the March. 30 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,000 But one of our best finishing, I mean, we'd had a lot of people 31 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,840 drop out last year 'cause last year it was like, so they 32 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,760 changed the route this year. I've done it five years in a row 33 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:47,160 now. It's been going on six years. 34 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,840 The original walkers, there was only six of them. 35 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,240 Then the next year there was like 38 of us. 36 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,200 And I was in that group. And then I've just done it every 37 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:57,760 year since. And this was the 6th year, but 38 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,400 last year and every year other than this year. 39 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,880 The rat has always been from the steps at the Capitol in Lincoln, 40 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,639 NE on the highway the whole time to Omaha, NE. 41 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:11,240 Through the night. Through the night. 42 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:13,680 But just like on the highway, I mean, you're walking on the 43 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,480 shoulder of the highway the whole way. 44 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:20,640 It's like feet on the pavement. And last year it was obnoxiously 45 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:25,480 hot and humid and we had people dropping pretty frequently 46 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,320 throughout the entire March. I mean, we had people like we, I 47 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,440 remember we were going up the hill, there's like 1 hill the 48 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:36,640 very last mile and you go up that hill and then that's where 49 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:39,720 everybody greets us the finish. But there was one guy that was 50 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:44,880 literally walking up that hill and trying to stop walking and 51 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:45,960 be like done with it. And that's. 52 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,680 Literally like physically like he was. 53 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,160 Done and like Jonathan and some other guy grabbed each shoulder 54 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,400 and like drunk him up the hill for the last little bit but this 55 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,960 year they changed the realm and it was like 30 miles of it was 56 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:04,200 on like this scenic wooded outdoors trail with like, you 57 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,520 know chipped limestone as the as the. 58 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,280 Foundation so. Much more forgiving on your 59 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,920 feet. And this was the by far the 60 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:15,640 easiest year physically for me. I mean, I was hurting by the end 61 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:17,680 of it. By like mile 20. 62 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,760 You're hurting. But yeah, I wasn't near the 63 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,240 suffering that I had in years. Probably the first year that I 64 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:24,400 was on crutches for a week after. 65 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:25,960 Oh, man. And like today, I went for a 66 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,240 run. They had some, they had some 67 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,200 prepping protocols and stuff in place or. 68 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:32,800 Yeah. So this year they got a lot 69 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,360 stricter with everything because there's more marchers, more 70 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,560 safety hazards. So everybody had to do a A20 71 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,720 mile qualifier ruck. So we did that several months 72 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,120 back. So 20 miles at a certain time 73 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,600 with a certain weighted pack. So I knocked that out several 74 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,400 months ago and then I've just been, most people that do it are 75 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,720 local to that area. So they'll have like planned 76 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:53,720 practice rocks. I've seen those online and 77 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:55,320 they'll meet up. And do like 10 miles on a 78 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,720 weekend. I'm in Arkansas obviously, so I 79 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,960 didn't do those. But I was trying to walk a lot 80 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:03,560 more the month of August. So I've been running 2 miles in 81 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,160 the morning, every morning, trail runs to kind of work on my 82 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,440 ankles. You got some crazy creaking on 83 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:09,880 your chair there, Chip, You hear me? 84 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,000 I don't think. Hopefully the mics don't. 85 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,720 Be I don't think the mics pick it up, but I can pick it up. 86 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:21,279 I get some DVD 40 over there and and then on the weekends I would 87 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,760 walk a longer distance. So first weekend in August, I 88 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,240 did 5 miles, then 10 miles, then 15 miles, then you and I did the 89 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,200 last one before the March itself, which was like 22 miles 90 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,400 that I did. And then you did ten of those 91 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,200 with Yeah, I did have to or 11 I guess. 92 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,560 And yeah, so my feet felt great. There's like basically there was 93 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:45,200 6 legs of the trip. And then you have like sometimes 94 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,680 an hour, sometimes 30 minutes, there's 190 minute stop in 95 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,120 between. And that's basically like you 96 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,760 get there and there's like a massive support staff there. 97 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:55,440 So like they have your chairs ready to rock. 98 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,440 They have like, you know, electrolytes ready, coffee 99 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:00,680 ready, you know, food for people doing that. 100 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,000 And you just, you know, priorities of work, they call it 101 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,360 you check your feet, make sure you doctor any blisters up. 102 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,480 But my protocol was I would just my I've got it dialed in this 103 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,240 five years I've done it now. So basically I put salty 104 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,160 britches, which is like this Lube that you just goob up all 105 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,640 around your toes, up in your junk up in your. 106 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,280 Anywhere there would be. Chafing, you just Lube up with 107 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:26,680 them. And then I put like these really 108 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,400 nice compression socks on and I didn't even take my socks off 109 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,000 after I put them on. So normally people take their 110 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,520 socks off and doctor aired their feet up at each stop. 111 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,720 I just gooped up, put my socks on and I never took my socks off 112 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,200 the whole time. Like I could tell that I didn't 113 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,200 have any blisters. So I felt great and I would just 114 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,640 get to the spot, get some electrolytes in me, take my 115 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,800 shoes off, elevate my feet, put my little eye mask on and close 116 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,960 my eyes for as long as I had before. 117 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,000 It was like 20 minutes till we started again. 118 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,600 Then I would put my shoes back on, goob up and then. 119 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,760 Start walking nice, did it. Cool off during the night like 120 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:02,040 you guys walked through the night did it. 121 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:03,920 Cool off. The weather was awesome this 122 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:05,120 year. I mean, it was like much cooler. 123 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,000 There was a cold front that came in the day prior and it rained a 124 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,440 bunch, so it's a little humid, but it was much cooler. 125 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,800 So the weather wasn't crazy. It wasn't like 100° like it has 126 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,000 been in years prior. I think it was like 80° the 127 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,720 majority of the time and then at night it cools down to like 50 128 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,080 or 60, so kind of chilly I. Mean you're wearing like that'd 129 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,080 be comfortable. It's comfortable, but you got 130 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,080 like a layer of sweat on you. So like you're cold. 131 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:28,520 So like you're, I'm putting like my, you know, hoodie and 132 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,120 everything on to kind of stay warm. 133 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:35,800 And then we walk in those stents and then like we walk to the 134 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,840 longest stent was just under 12 miles and there's like a little 135 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,040 break in between. But in that little break there 136 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:43,680 was no chairs. There was, it wasn't like a 137 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,840 formal break. It just like a little little 138 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:49,320 breathe it before the rest of it. 139 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,680 But most of the stents were like 10 miles, that 11 mile, 12 mile 140 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,520 1. And there's a couple of shorter 141 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,840 ones like 7 miles. But yeah, there was one guy, 142 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,240 man, he's got my full respect. He doesn't have use of his legs. 143 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,440 He's like a veteran that doesn't have the use of his legs. 144 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,240 He did the whole thing in a wheelchair. 145 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,560 Manual just. Yeah, there's footage of him 146 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,840 going up this gravel hill in a freaking wheelchair, just like 147 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,160 with his hands. And I'm like, man, no matter how 148 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,640 bad my feet are hurting, I'll look at him and I'm like, I have 149 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,480 nothing to complain about. Yeah, if he can do it, you got 150 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,800 nothing to complain about. It is crazy man, like it is 151 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,880 totally all mental. I mean that first year I did it 152 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,480 I didn't prep it all. I bought a pair of shoes, didn't 153 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,320 break them in, didn't wear socks. 154 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,000 I mean, like my feet were blistered and bloodied by the 155 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,240 first leg and by the end of it I felt like I was walking on club 156 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,040 feet and that's when I was doing that one mile run every. 157 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,480 Day. So like the last 10 miles, I ran 158 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,280 one of those miles with like club feet, man. 159 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:50,920 I was just. I was hurting. 160 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,400 That was a good lesson. Yeah, so I, I conditioned my 161 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,600 feet a little better now and I got everything dialed in with 162 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,600 the socks and what gear I need, but 50 miles is no joke, man. 163 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,400 Like it, it's a it's a lot. It's. 164 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,760 Pretty impressive and. Then Jonathan and I did push ups 165 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,080 at every stop. So we did 50 push ups every stop 166 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,920 and it was cool man. It was cool. 167 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:11,680 Nice. So we're going to talk to him to 168 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:13,000 do it next year. Who? 169 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:13,640 Me. Yeah. 170 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,320 OK, you're not in prep next year. 171 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,800 That's true. And it's cool is Jamie, Ben, Joe 172 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,600 and Jonathan are all in prep. So they were hitting their 173 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:24,680 macros and everything throughout it all. 174 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,640 And then one year I did, it was like we did the March the day 175 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,000 before my peak week started. So I was super depleted at that 176 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,200 point, but the lighter you are because you're leaner, the 177 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:34,320 easier. It is, I'm sure. 178 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:35,799 Yep. So so do you. 179 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:39,039 Did you eat anything to offset all that caloric burn or you 180 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,159 just let it? I was pretty much like, so I'm 181 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:42,760 doing the ultra day fasting right now. 182 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,600 So the day before the March was a feeding day for me. 183 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,800 So I had an extra 1000 calories. So it was like 6500 calories for 184 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,320 me that day. And then I didn't eat it all the 185 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,320 day the first day of the March. And then once it hit the next 186 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:57,640 day, I had like a little bit of food during the March and then 187 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,960 like not much like 1 brick I think, and then a meat stick. 188 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:03,000 And then we had steaks that night. 189 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:08,960 So but yeah, I, I dropped 5 lbs after the March was over. 190 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,800 I had like 100 and 507,000 steps. 191 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,280 Wow. The estimated caloric 192 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,560 expenditure was like 10,000. That's crazy. 193 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:18,600 So yes, it's pretty brutal, man. That's a good day. 194 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:20,520 Pretty what? What shocks me though, is like, 195 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,920 I'll start and I'm looking at everybody, kind of not sizing 196 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:26,720 them up because it's not like it's a competition, Like we're 197 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,080 doing this for the veterans. But I'll look at people and I'm 198 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,400 like, man, they've got, you know, they're carrying a lot of 199 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,240 extra weight. I'm watching them move and 200 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,520 there's like obvious, you know, stress on their joints because 201 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,200 they're like hobbling and they just have, they're carrying 202 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,200 weight and they're carrying a lot of extra body fat. 203 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,800 And I'm like, there's no way they're going to make this. 204 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,640 And they do, man, they do. It blows my mind. 205 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,920 And then you have somebody that's like fit and trim and 206 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,160 lean and winds up bowing out. You know, you never know. 207 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,320 It's all mindset. Yeah, for mental game, 208 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:59,160 definitely. Yeah, we'll do it. 209 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,040 We'll do it again next year. You'll you'll do it Wednesday 210 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:02,880 and you'll see all. That could maybe, maybe that 211 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:06,800 could be a retreat or something. Or we'll get a group Keto Savage 212 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,320 group. Yeah, a little savage retreat. 213 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,520 Do some marching, raise some money for vets. 214 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,200 I'm all for it. OK, Speaking of retreats, yeah, 215 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,160 we're going to do another. One, we were talking about that 216 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,320 just the other day. Yeah, So we're going to talk 217 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,480 about this on the live call tonight for the tribe, but we're 218 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,960 going to. So we did a a, a retreat this 219 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,720 year in February with Bill Schindler. 220 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:28,880 Awesome. And the way we've kind of 221 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,720 formatted him is I'll book out a big Airbnb that everybody can 222 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,000 stay in. We'll have one expert speaker 223 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,520 cap it at like 15 people tops. And it just be like the whole 224 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:40,080 weekend and much more intimate, like we're all staying in the 225 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,480 same place. It's just way better that as 226 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,040 opposed to like a massive conference where it's just like 227 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,560 you're just a number. There's a place for those two. 228 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:50,040 Obviously, I enjoy going to them. 229 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,800 I enjoy speaking at them. I enjoy supporting them, but I 230 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,600 like more of the intimate setting. 231 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,680 So we we did the one with Bill Schindler, which was awesome in 232 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:01,240 February. And we're going to start doing 233 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,080 those probably on a quarterly basis, but we'll probably not do 234 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,120 it third quarter because the competition will be typically in 235 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,560 September and then fourth quarters up in the area because 236 00:11:09,560 --> 00:11:11,480 that's kind of when the holidays kick up, Thanksgiving, 237 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,040 Christmas. But first and second quarter for 238 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:18,600 sure going forward, we'll have a Savage retreat and the next one 239 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,840 may be some type of obstacle course run where we just all get 240 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,720 a big Airbnb and sign up for like a Spartan Race or? 241 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,560 Go rough mudder or whatever. Or something. 242 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,960 So we'll get that dialed in and that'll probably be we might do 243 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,680 one fourth quarter this year or we might just hold it off and do 244 00:11:36,680 --> 00:11:39,280 first quarter next year, but that'll be in the works. 245 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:40,720 For sure I'm in. Definitely in for that. 246 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,760 Yeah. Speaking of the competition, Jay 247 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:49,000 Shane just left here. He's headed home, but he dropped 248 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,200 a pretty cool, exciting announcement regarding the 249 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,800 competitor swag bags for our competition in September. 250 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,160 Our swag bags are going to be next. 251 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:01,120 Man, I was just doing the math on like, what's going to be in 252 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,360 there and you're going to get more stuff in your swag bag than 253 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:06,960 it even cost you to register to compete. 254 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,160 Yeah, and it's not like cheesy stuff that you'll never use. 255 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,560 Like a lot of times I'll go to a show and I'll get a swag bag. 256 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:17,800 It's like a, it's like a crappy bag with like 100% polyester 257 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:22,560 like shirt that's been like heat stamped and then like some 258 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:25,200 supplements that I would never use this. 259 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,160 Or like bars? Or like a. 260 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,200 Bar like a yeah, so stuff I would never really use this year 261 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,120 we I mean what is the dollar value add currently? 262 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,320 It's like 180 bucks or something like that in climbing. 263 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:40,360 So so you're going to get well Jay Shane, he is he's the man 264 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:44,280 behind performance gains supplements and he just dropped 265 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,800 a new flavour. He's dropped two flavours now of 266 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:53,480 his sleepy supplement, Peaceful Dreams, I guess it's called, and 267 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,200 he's going to give everybody a full size canister and that's 268 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:01,520 like 50 bucks, 40-50 bucks. And then Redmond relight, I had 269 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:03,840 to call with them yesterday. They're giving everybody a full 270 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:07,080 size canister of relight immunity and a full size 271 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:11,520 canister of relight energy. There's, you know, 9000 bucks. 272 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,280 So no single serve. Non single serve, no, but 273 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:17,960 they're also going to give everybody A7 stick pack, sampler 274 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,040 pouch and that's another, I don't know, 20 bucks whatever. 275 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,280 And we've got keto brains on board. 276 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,720 They're stocking everybody. They're we're giving everybody 277 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,760 samples of keto brains, nootropic coffee Creamer and the 278 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,440 creatine stick packs that they just dropped. 279 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,120 They're 5 milligrams of creatine monohydrate and a travel 280 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,200 friendly little stick pack, which is amazing. 281 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,600 What else we got? We got obviously you're going to 282 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,360 get a shirt. Shirt The swag bag itself is 283 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,960 like nice. Like it's like a fabric, not 284 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:49,920 like one of those plasticky ones, a branded water bottle 285 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:55,040 that my uncle's making for us. And then we got a full keto 286 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:56,960 brick obviously. So that'll be in there. 287 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:01,280 The shirts are the ones that we're printing in house, so high 288 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,520 end shirts and. And we've got some other 289 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:05,520 promotional bar. Yeah. 290 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,920 Oh yeah, we've got a carnivore bar, yeah, full size carnivore 291 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,040 bar, which is top notch, thanks to them. 292 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,640 And there's all the some other promotional stuff in there for 293 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:21,440 some local like Relax and Renew Med Spa here in Farmington and 294 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,640 Competitor's Edge Massage, Competitor's Edge Massage 295 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:28,680 Massage. They're throwing in some goodies 296 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,000 and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and better. 297 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:32,200 So I'm. Pretty sure. 298 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,280 I'm excited to be in the show just for the swag bag. 299 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,320 I mean, not really, but it's going to be, you're going to get 300 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,680 a stockpile. So this is my first year as 301 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,720 promoter, obviously, and you've been helping me a lot get 302 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,960 everything organized because you and I both competed a bunch. 303 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:47,680 I've judged a bit. It's OK. 304 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:51,080 I know what a good show looks like. 305 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:52,880 And I want to do that and then some. 306 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,320 And initially, like it's like, man, we don't have very many 307 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,440 registrations. Like I'm there's a lot of things 308 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,200 moving pieces that haven't come together yet. 309 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,000 Like hopefully it'll be good. Hopefully it won't, but I'm 310 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,680 going all in with it. But now a month down, this 311 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,360 show's going to be bad and fast, man. 312 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,920 Like we've got so much support, so much branded everything, like 313 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:14,600 regardless of how many competitors we have. 314 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:15,840 And I think we'll have a pretty good turn out. 315 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:17,920 We've got pretty good turn out. Already registered for the first 316 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,760 show, which is awesome. But like, whoever's there is 317 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,040 going to be treated like freaking royalty. 318 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,040 Excited they're. Just going to keep spreading the 319 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,000 positive word of mouth and it's going to be a good thing this. 320 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,680 Is going to be the kind of show where this is the inaugural 321 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:32,760 year. This is going to be the kind of 322 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,000 show where people that compete in it are going to be like, 323 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,040 Dang, that was awesome. I want to try to keep that one 324 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,000 on my calendar for next season or the following season or 325 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,840 whenever they compete again. That's kind of how I felt when I 326 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,360 went to I'm actually wearing the shirt. 327 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:47,800 The Wisconsin Warrior, Tony and Courtney Spaeth put that one on 328 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,320 and that was the kind of show I helped out backstage several 329 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,280 years expediting. And I always thought, man, they 330 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:54,840 do it. This is a fun show. 331 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,400 It's high energy, the music is awesome, the lighting is 332 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,040 awesome. It's in a Performing Arts Center 333 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,880 that's like top of the line, cutting edge, modern. 334 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,320 It was just a really exciting, awesome experience. 335 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,840 Versus going to some old smelly gymnasium or like conference 336 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,880 room in a hotel or whatever. And they have to build the stage 337 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,440 and they have to bring the lights in and they got speakers 338 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,280 on stands and all that kind of stuff, which I'm not, I'm not 339 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,280 talking down on. I'm just saying like when you 340 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,600 compare the 2 and that's what this yours is going to be like 341 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,840 that it's going to be. We spared no expense. 342 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,120 Like the venue is the best venue I can get. 343 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,520 Like everything is just the best. 344 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,320 Like if my name's on and I want it to be just like we're 345 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,040 striving for excellence here and I feel like we'll be able to 346 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:40,040 deliver that. And we and we had the top of the 347 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:44,600 line, one of the awesomest hotels in our mind like we were 348 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:46,040 going to go do. What was the name of that one 349 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:47,120 it? Was booked. 350 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:48,640 It was like the graduate, I think, yeah. 351 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,480 Yeah, and it was it was right on par with the kind of standards 352 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,200 we're trying to set. And it just so happened that 353 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,880 they were booked out and had it all set up for a football game 354 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,040 in town. So, but let's keep them in mind. 355 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:01,320 Maybe next year that'd. Be awesome. 356 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,480 Yeah, Because it's like a Notre Dame football game that same 357 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,040 weekend. All the hotels were booked 358 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,359 except for the one we got. And that from a convenience 359 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:10,119 standpoint's be perfect. That's actually going to work 360 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,160 really, really well because it's within walking distance from 361 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,200 Mozart Gym. Right off the the highway from 362 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,520 people flying in, not far from the airport, right off, I mean 363 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:20,560 literally within walking distance to the gym, which is 364 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:22,119 the host gym, which is where we're going to be doing the 365 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,240 tanning and the competitor check insurance on Friday. 366 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:27,079 And I think competitors can lift for free. 367 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:31,080 So that's cool. But so the convenience with the 368 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,800 hotels is there. I don't know what I've never 369 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,920 stayed at that hotel. So hopefully the quality is 370 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,400 there too. That's the only thing that I 371 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:39,480 don't know for. Sure. 372 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:41,520 Realistically speaking, though, you're not spending a whole lot 373 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:42,320 of time there. Yeah. 374 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:44,560 You come in, you tear off the bed sheets, you put your own 375 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,960 sheets on there, you get a good night's sleep, and then 376 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,720 everything else you know happens. 377 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:52,040 We got to think of something cool to do the next day on 378 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,400 Sunday for anybody that's in town still and wants to link up. 379 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,040 Well, some people will have photo shoots. 380 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,320 I've got a photo shoot at Ozark. Yeah, and whoever else has 381 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,160 signed up for the full blown photo shoot that'll happen 382 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,560 there. But yeah, after that, it'd be 383 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,600 awesome if we could. Maybe we can do. 384 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:09,760 The game together I. Don't know, we'll think of 385 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,640 something cool. I'll do some brainstorming but 386 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,000 like the food is going to be legit too. 387 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,680 Oh yeah. Oh man, so. 388 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:17,800 I think we mentioned this previously, there's been some 389 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,000 more details added. So my dad is coming in. 390 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,680 He's going to be bringing his massive smoker that he built. 391 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,000 He's going to have 16 pork butts in there. 392 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,680 He's going to start smoking that on Friday and he's going to have 393 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,720 the trailer, the smoker, like everything there at the 394 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:38,480 footsteps of the venue. And then Stan, who was at Bill 395 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:42,080 Chandler's retreat, he's got, he does all regenerative 396 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:43,760 agriculture. He does it right. 397 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,240 Like he rotates everything. Like he's giving us a full farm 398 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:47,800 tour. Like he does it as it's supposed 399 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,360 to be done. And he's got these chickens that 400 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:55,400 are like meat bird chickens that he was raised, rotated, done the 401 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,680 whole chicken tractor thing. He, he moved him like twice a 402 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,240 day, every single day throughout their bringing up process. 403 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,480 He charges 27 bucks a bird for those things basically. 404 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,080 So significantly higher quality than what you're going to get at 405 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:08,840 any groceries. Yeah, it's not golden plum. 406 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:11,320 Yeah, we're going to. We, we bought a bunch of those. 407 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,720 And he's going to be on site cooking the chicken. 408 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,440 So all the competitors, all the judges. 409 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:21,600 And as long as supplies last, the attendees will have smoked 410 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,760 pork butt and grilled chicken. That's like super high quality. 411 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:27,120 That'll be awesome. That'll be good. 412 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,000 That'll be so I'm I'm stoked it's coming up quick. 413 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,240 It's only we're barely over a month out. 414 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:33,440 Yeah, like it's right around the corner. 415 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,000 I think 32 days or 31 days, something like that. 416 00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:39,680 So if you're still on the fence about registering, definitely 417 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,440 get registered. Swag bags are going to be legit. 418 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,600 Plus we're doing a weekly drawing for any registrants that 419 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:50,000 we have signed up to win some extra goodies day of show and 420 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:52,600 it's going to be, it's going to be an experience. 421 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,080 Naturalstatesavages.com. It's going to be good.com. 422 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,440 What else is new? So while I was marching, I 423 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,800 called you. It was like literally the final 424 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:04,480 March, the final mile of on Sunday. 425 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,600 Yeah, on Sunday, as I'm walking up that last hill before I 426 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:11,120 pressed that hill to be met by the greeting party, I called you 427 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:15,240 at 11:50. And since I was marching and not 428 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:18,480 at the computer, you were filling in for me, and you made 429 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,200 the Keto Brooks live on the site. 430 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,320 And we launched for the first time ever both Carnivore Cake 431 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:28,520 Bop and Carnivore Primal Fudge simultaneously because like 432 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,680 we've launched them both independently and that's always 433 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:33,120 gone over well. But people are always like, man, 434 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,280 I wish they were both up there for the same at the same time. 435 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,320 So I can just stock up on carnivore bricks. 436 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:41,080 So we had both ingredients on hand. 437 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,120 So we just made a solid batch of both flavors. 438 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,920 Yeah, we got both Primal Fudge and Cake pop up for grabs right 439 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,280 now, so. Still in stock. 440 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:54,720 Yeah, still in stock and that was the first time I've ever not 441 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:56,680 been the one on the computer for the launch. 442 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:58,480 So that was a little nerve wracking, but. 443 00:20:58,920 --> 00:20:59,840 It was fun. You rocked it. 444 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,720 Yeah, you rocked it. It's not a not a tricky task. 445 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:07,280 Also, Speaking of cake pop, we've got a different style 446 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,800 tallow in a lot of those. We should mention that. 447 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,560 Yeah. So the Primal Fudge was made 448 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:17,200 with the tile that we've been using, the Carnivore cake pump 449 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,800 that we made the week prior to last week was made with the tile 450 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,480 that we've been using, the cake pump that was produced with I 451 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:31,680 think production dates of August 18th, 19th. 452 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:34,240 No, I think it's 19th, 20th and 21st. 453 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,760 So those three dates, if you have a cake pop, you look over 454 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,720 on the package by date or package date and it says 1920 or 455 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,200 21. Those were made with a new 456 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:51,200 variation of the tallow. So same supplier, but same, same 457 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,760 high quality tallow, grass fed, finished all that good stuff, 458 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:59,680 but different rendering process. So this tallow, because it was 459 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,920 rendered differently, it's got a little bit less moisture 460 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,360 activity. All the tallow is well below the 461 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,120 USDA guidelines and whatnot. So you've been good there. 462 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:12,840 But like this one that was even lower, which means the texture 463 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,720 is a little bit different. It's a little bit more solid, 464 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,320 not near as much as the cacao based bricks, but more so than 465 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,480 some of these later based tallow bricks. 466 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:28,160 So it's a little bit harder and a little bit more stable in that 467 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,840 regard. And it's just a little bit 468 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,840 different from a taste and texture standpoint. 469 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:38,280 I believe this rendering process has even higher additional 470 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:39,080 profile. Yeah, superior. 471 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,560 So it's always kind of curious to see how people respond and 472 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,680 what the feedback is from that, but. 473 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,920 I like the new version better, to be honest. 474 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:52,280 And I like cake pop. It's not my favorite flavour the 475 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,200 the previous tallow, it's not my favorite flavour just 'cause I 476 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,880 like other ones even more. But this might be, it's up 477 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:01,040 there. Yeah, it's right up in there. 478 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,920 So the cake pop, I like to eat out of the refrigerator. 479 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:08,520 So when it's cold and it's got a whole new flavour profile and 480 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,560 texture, when it's cold, this new tallow, it's pretty Dang 481 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,680 good. Yeah, so if you get one of those 482 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,600 bricks, let us know what you think, 'cause we're always 483 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,000 trying to just push the envelope and get better and better and 484 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,560 better, again, striving for excellence. 485 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:25,280 So if any of y'all get cake pop made with those three dates, let 486 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,200 us know how you like them relative to the other variations 487 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,640 of cake pop. The macros are all the same. 488 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,520 Yeah, I mean all the profiles all the same. 489 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,520 It's just slightly different rendering process which resulted 490 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,200 in different texture and slight variation in taste. 491 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,280 But everybody that I've had sampled thus far has been a fan 492 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:43,880 so. So I'm excited about it. 493 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:45,880 So we'll see. Me too. 494 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,800 It's always nerve wracking though when you like put out a 495 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:53,600 product and wait for feedback, you know, but hope it's all 496 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,920 positive. It's also getting cooler outside 497 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,040 like this week it was a cold front came in. 498 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:05,000 It's like 80° right now. Yeah, even yesterday was like 499 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:09,760 when I left, it was 66. Yeah, So hopefully we are on the 500 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,880 tail end of people getting melted bricks. 501 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:14,560 And like, I hate the melted bricks. 502 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,200 Like I hate people getting melted bricks. 503 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,920 But like, there's not really any way to hedge against that unless 504 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,360 we start packaging with dry ice. And that would get crazy 505 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:24,080 expensive for everybody. We might offer that next year. 506 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,320 It's like this, you know, super expensive shipping option. 507 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,680 But the new packaging obviously keeps it from leaking and then 508 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,240 people can pop it in the fridge. And that's honestly how I kind 509 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,880 of like to eat. Yeah, the new packaging isn't 510 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,680 isn't intended to keep them from melting, to keep them from 511 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,000 leaking if they do melt. Exactly. 512 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,840 But again, there's only four months out of the year where 513 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,480 it's like high risk of melting, so hopefully we're on the tail 514 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,720 end of that and people can start getting bricks that look like 515 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,720 bricks instead of blocks. So should be beautiful, 516 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,000 beautiful. I didn't see you all weekend. 517 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,440 Anything new and exciting in your world? 518 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,960 Hiked 11 miles at Devil's Den. I saw that, yeah. 519 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:04,960 That was mugged in you. I. 520 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:10,160 Did not get injured, but some of my favorite trails were still 521 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,600 closed and I'm assuming they're the one, the one or the ones 522 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,320 connected to what they're still investigating out there. 523 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,040 You hadn't heard there was a multiple murder situation last 524 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,680 month? That's some of the not a trail. 525 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,040 I think it was last month. July, wasn't it? 526 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:26,920 Yeah. Or was it in August? 527 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,320 I forget, but I had tried to go out there the previous weekend 528 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,520 and everything was roped off, caution tape doing how to enter. 529 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:38,040 And I saw they posted something online earlier last week that 530 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:39,600 they were going to reopen some of the trails. 531 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,280 So I zipped out, zipped down there and went for an 11 mile 532 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,000 hike. And I wasn't planning on going 533 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,440 11 miles and it took me almost 4 1/2 five hours ish. 534 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,800 But once I started going, I just was like man, this is just 535 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,760 great. Just loving the outdoor, the 536 00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,560 weather, the fresh air, the sunlight. 537 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,560 But I found myself hitting some of the trails that snaked way 538 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:07,800 off, like off the beaten path. 0 phone service, 0 people, 0 trail 539 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,160 maintenance. And I was every so often I would 540 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,360 get like a weird chill, you know, from like head to toe. 541 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:19,680 And I'm like, OK, my instincts are telling me something might 542 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,200 something might be watching me right now, you know, like, you 543 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:23,760 just get that weird irky feeling. 544 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,520 So I would stop and I'd look around and I don't want 545 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,880 something like praying on me from up in a tree or, you know, 546 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:33,000 because I was in obviously wilderness country. 547 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,880 And I'm thinking, man, I need to get like, I carry a knife. 548 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:42,480 I, I have hesitated to carry my gun just because I don't have 549 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,600 like a real comfortable way to carry it right now when I'm 550 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,360 hiking and sweaty and hot. And you know, so I'm thinking 551 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,480 maybe I should just get some bear spray because they make 552 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,320 some pretty decent, you know, long range bear spray deterrent 553 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,800 sprays, something that'll just take care of any type of 554 00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,920 wildlife. But I made it. 555 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:04,320 I'm thinking even if I had to send a text right now, no go. 556 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:05,480 Not happening. No go. 557 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,240 There's something good about that though, man. 558 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,400 Like there it was. So peaceful, yeah. 559 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,320 Just not, not if nobody could reach me, if there was like my 560 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,120 phone risk was not going to go off. 561 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:19,040 Yeah, I feel like, like when you get off the beaten path, because 562 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,840 I experienced this when I'm hunting a lot, like there's no 563 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,640 cell service, nobody could find me if I needed them to. 564 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,880 So there's like this element of risk involved, but I feel like 565 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,560 that is liberating. Like men especially, like we 566 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:37,840 need to have risk where like it all is on you to get back 567 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,000 safely. And I feel like, I feel like we 568 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,760 need that, you know it. Was it was cool. 569 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,400 And then when I made the huge long loop and came back and 570 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,320 started hearing voices and I was getting closer to the campground 571 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,640 and everything, I could smell bacon and I'm like, all right, 572 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,680 I'm back. OK, I made it and survived. 573 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,280 But made it and survived. It's good. 574 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,920 Yeah. I want to start doing like off 575 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,640 the grid, like back country hunting where it's like you go 576 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,960 out there, you pack everything you need in your bag and you're 577 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,120 just like off the grid, dude. Like I was listening to a book 578 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:10,000 and it was staged in Alaska and they were doing Caribou hunting 579 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,160 in Alaska. Like where they have to 580 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,480 literally get flown in via. One of the huddle jumpers float 581 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,640 plane. Yeah, and like, like they, the 582 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,480 plane's not coming back for three weeks, you know, so like 583 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,480 they scheduled to pick you up in three weeks. 584 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,240 So you do everything and then you meet back there and 585 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,520 hopefully you meet back there, yeah. 586 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,200 You're either there or not. Yeah, yeah. 587 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,880 So like something like that I I could totally. 588 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,440 Get behind. I've been in the Boundary Waters 589 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:34,640 several times. Actually. 590 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,480 The first time I think I went when I was a kid in church youth 591 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,560 group and they took a whole bunch of us out. 592 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,760 And that was my first introduction into the Boundary 593 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,680 Waters way up in northern Minnesota, kind of borderline of 594 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,600 Canada. But that's pretty sweet. 595 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,040 It's a pretty country. Oh, man, it's and there's, 596 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,080 there's, you see, you see, no wires? 597 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,600 No, it's phone towers, no power lines. 598 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,720 You don't hear any motors because you go in where there's 599 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,320 no motors allowed. You pack everything in that 600 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,400 you're going to take in, and you have to make sure you have room 601 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,160 to bring whatever you don't use or don't eat or trash back out 602 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,440 with you. You're on your own. 603 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,560 Like you have a map, You have the Portage from lake to lake. 604 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,120 Everything that you have in your canoe or on your body, you have 605 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,440 to carry. Some of those portages were 606 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,560 several miles. So you're carrying a canoe on 607 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,600 your shoulders. You got a huge like Duluth pack 608 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,400 on your back and then your turtle pack, I guess they call 609 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,040 it. So you have another huge stuffed 610 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,600 pack on the front of you. So it helps kind of balance you 611 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,080 forward to forward to backward and you're just huffing it up. 612 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,480 Some of these steep inclines, they're rocky terrain. 613 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,200 They're not maintained. No one takes care of them. 614 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,480 It's pretty wild. And then you come out and you're 615 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,240 like, holy crap. It's a whole new part of the 616 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,600 world that you just never really get to experience when you're 617 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,000 surrounded by technology and hustle bustle. 618 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,400 Yeah, it's such a distraction. Like phones are just, I mean, 619 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,880 they're a great tool, but like, man, there's such a distraction. 620 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,480 And like people, they don't even know how to not look at their 621 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,120 phone. Like when you get on elevator 622 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,000 and everybody just automatically, like you get 623 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,440 multiple people on elevator, like nobody even looks at them. 624 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,520 You don't even. I know you don't even interact 625 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,360 with people anymore, even on the street. 626 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:17,000 Like I've been trying to go out of my way to just interact with 627 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,320 random strangers on a day-to-day basis. 628 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,720 You know, if I see someone I'll smile or say hey or nice shirt 629 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,680 or something like that. Because half the time society 630 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,560 now you encounter a stranger and instead of initiating any type 631 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:33,880 of individual contact, you just look down or you look away. 632 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,440 It's like society needs a little. 633 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,320 It's weird though, man, like talking about, you know, that 634 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,560 mugging that happened and I don't know that situation. 635 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,360 So this is not really a good example, but just like mugging 636 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,600 in general, like people getting robbed, people getting broken 637 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,360 into, people just, you know, being harmed. 638 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,080 It's like so much of that, not all of it, but a lot of that 639 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,080 could be resolved simply by like how you carry yourself because 640 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,480 like so many people look like victims, like easy targets, like 641 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,640 they're hunched over. They're. 642 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,840 Looking at they're not paying attention. 643 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:10,320 They're not observant and they just look like prey, you know, 644 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,800 where as if you walk around with your chin up, your shoulders 645 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,080 back, making eye contact, having a firm handshake. 646 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:21,160 Like we take that for granted. But nobody ever really messes 647 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:22,640 with me. And I'm not a tall guy. 648 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,400 Like I don't feel like I look very like intimidating, but 649 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,480 nobody ever messes with me. I think a large part of that 650 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,000 simply because I carry myself with. 651 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,520 It's your demeanor, yeah. Yeah, and I feel like if you 652 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,360 carry yourself with confidence, your people are less likely to 653 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,840 mess with you because like, OK, that guy's got something going 654 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:38,920 on. I'm not going to, he's not going 655 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,000 to be my first target to go try and attack and agree something, 656 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,680 you know. So yeah, how you carry yourself 657 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,040 is key. And you can't carry yourself 658 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,520 well if you're constantly looking at your phone. 659 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:48,320 That's true. Attracted. 660 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,320 So there's that. But I think they teach a lot of 661 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,880 that in like martial arts and like jiu jitsu and stuff. 662 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,240 Like when I put Rigel in jiu jitsu, at some point, he's 663 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,320 probably going to get the conversation of like, look, this 664 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:01,680 is how you carry yourself, you know, from the instructor. 665 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,080 I'll have that conversation with him too. 666 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,720 But that'd be good. I'm excited about that. 667 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,040 I had a dream about jiu jitsu last. 668 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:07,680 Really. Yeah. 669 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,480 I had a dream that I went to my first jiu jitsu class and 670 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,800 everybody was like, don't mess with that guy. 671 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,960 I'm like, I don't even know what I'm doing. 672 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:18,200 So. That'll be fun. 673 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,080 Are you gonna, are you gonna do jiu jitsu with him when he's in 674 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:23,800 class? Or I don't know, I gotta go 675 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,760 there and like see how that's involved. 676 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,800 Like I I wouldn't just drop him and leave him, but I'm pretty 677 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,120 sure it's like age 3 to 5 and they'll be a dedicated 678 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,880 instructor there. I don't know if they have other 679 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,960 classes going on simultaneously. What would be cool is if they 680 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,760 had like an adult class and that class going on the same time 681 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,640 that he and I can both go into our own classes.