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Team Getaway Special: Get to Know Your Coaches! (Ep. 27) · SOTA Personal Training Podcast

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Soda Personal Training
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podcast. We help busy adults get strong
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and fit. But this weekend we aren't doing
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any of that because it's party weekend.
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It's party weekends everybody. Raise your glass, raise your
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coffee, your water, your 0 calorie non alcoholic beverage.
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Let's make a toast. Party weekend.
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OK, party weekend. We're going to talk about what
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personal trainers do for fun. Somebody take it away, Phil.
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Go all right, totally off off regular schedule.
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This is not going to work for me.
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But no, we've got I've got like some this or that questions just
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to help our listeners, our community.
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And so that gets to know our coaches better and what we like
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to do in our off time, if you're curious.
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Do you want to just start with your questions out first?
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Let me like, OK, let me intro this by saying that we are like
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all here right now. There is so many people in this
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room. We got 123-4567.
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So we got me coach Sean, coach Blake, coach Katie, coach
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Maddie, coach Rob, coach Ben and coach Phil.
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OK? So seven, OK, seven of us.
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And we have no idea how this is going to go down.
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Somebody give us a little background.
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Katie, why don't you talk a little bit and just say like
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where we are, what we're doing? Intro the setting for us.
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Get up on the mic, K? There you.
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Go Hello everybody, we are in the beautiful city of
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Alexandria, MN at a very nice Airbnb and Coach Kira will be
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here in a little bit but for now we're just enjoying each other's
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company and doing some team bonding.
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Some team bonding? Yep, Yeah, Phil, take it away.
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You wanna go into these, these questions that you're gonna ask
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us? Let's do let's do a rapid fire
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session of some this or thats OK, I got a list of these and I
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think I'll just rapid fire and we'll go through one at a time
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and we'll just go through like this.
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We'll do like a little roll call.
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So let's let's start with that get some that sounds.
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Good. Remember everybody get in pretty
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close to your mics when you speak.
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You know, 4 to 6 inches. Away, yeah.
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All right, all right. Good first category, everyday
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life and habits. All right then.
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Then up first, Coach Ben. Coffee or tea?
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Definitely coffee. Rob Yeah.
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Rob early bird or night owl? Night owl, Oh boy.
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Maddie paper planner or phone calendar?
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Buffering. I do both.
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Katie cook at home or eat out. Cook at home you.
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Can answer that for. OK.
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All right. Excellent.
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Why are you looking at me like that?
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Cook at home. You love cooking for me, Blake?
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Netflix or YouTube? YouTube.
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Oh quick Sean, text or call, I know the answer to this.
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Call. I'm a 90s guy.
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Voice message, right? Yes, it's sometimes it's a
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voice. You're right, you're right.
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Yeah, Ben, Road trip or flight? Flight.
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Flight for Ben Rob Big city or small town?
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Small town. Natty beach day or hiking day?
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Beach Day. Katie, summer or winter?
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Summer all day. Excellent.
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All day we're on the food and drink Coach Blake, pizza or
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tacos. Pizza wrong.
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Sean sweet or salty? Salty.
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Easy. I know all Barbie nuts.
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I know all of Sean's answers before.
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Ben ice cream cone or milkshake? Ice cream cone question.
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Mark Rob Wine or beer, Beer, Quick Maddie breakfast or
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dinner, Food all day. Probably I should say breakfast.
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That's the right answer. Good, good, good, Katie.
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Chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate.
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How do you feel about that film? Vanilla boy.
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All right. Like pancakes or waffles?
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Pancakes. Good answer, Sean.
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Spicy or mild? All right, I would say spicy,
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but my fiance would say that I can't handle.
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Anything spicy? Different.
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Yeah. Different opinions.
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Yeah. Ben.
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Fancy restaurant or hole in the wall joint?
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Fancy restaurant. Bob OK Rob, a smoothie or coffee
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to start the day. Coffee.
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Quick answers, This is a good answer.
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Good question for you, Rob, but it's going to Maddie, Marvel or
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DC? Don't ask me.
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Marvel. New question.
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Star Wars or Star Trek? Next question?
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You're killing me. Well, I know more Star Wars than
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Star Trek. The only thing I know with Star
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Trek is there's someone named Worf because that's what my
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grandma named her dog after. Fair enough.
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So that's yeah. I love it.
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He was a Klingon. He was the chief of security on
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them. We'll give you, yeah, we'll give
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you the next one, Maddie. Comedy or drama?
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Comedy. Katy reality TV or scripted?
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It depends. Yeah, they're all scripted, so
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oh gosh, all. Right Blake concert or sporting
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event? Sporting event, Sean, podcast or
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audio? Podcast.
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Doing them or listening to them? Both.
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Yeah, exactly. OK, Ben, movie at home or
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theater? Theater.
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Rob TikTok or Instagram? Instagram.
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Maddie Rock or hip hop? Rock.
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Really. OK.
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All right. I thought you were going to say
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the. Other I know we're learning.
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We're learning here today, Katie.
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Super Bowl or Oscars. Super Bowl.
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Yeah, sure. Sure, just think I'm real.
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Hard about it. All right, travel and adventure,
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Blake Mountains or ocean? Mountains.
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Montana man. Yeah, cowboy Sean, Camping or
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hotel? I mean, I would like to say that
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I can do camping successfully, but just hotel, I'm not, I'm not
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gonna. OK Ben, explore a new city or
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revisit a favorite. Which is a good one for you.
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Yeah, explore a new city. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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OK. Rob Cruise or all inclusive
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resort? Have you done either of those?
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Yes, I'd have hated them both actually.
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I've never, I've never been on a cruise.
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I would never go on a cruise. So yeah.
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You would not like a cruise then.
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No, I have a whole argument against cruises All inclusive
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resort in that case. OK, all inclusive.
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All right. Good, Maddie.
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Spontaneous trip or carefully planned?
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So you spontaneous there. You go, it's more fun Katie
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backpacking your luxury travel. I know the answer.
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I think I do. You say luxury travel, right?
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Luxury backpack. Glamping, glamping, glamping.
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Blake National Parks or theme parks?
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National Park. OK, Montana, man.
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All right. Sean's staycation or vacation
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abroad? Vacation.
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Yeah, vacation abroad. Yeah, you'd really do
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staycations. Yeah, I mean, I don't know,
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you'd have to define. Days of.
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Vacation, yeah, just move on, I suppose to.
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Yeah. Ben long flight or long drive?
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They're both terrible. Probably a long drive 'cause you
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can stop easier. That's fair.
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That's fair. Rob.
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Cold weather getaway or tropical escape?
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Tropical escape. Yeah.
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Yeah, Don. Alright.
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The last 10, thought provoking and fun.
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These might take longer. I think we can maybe expand on
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these if we'd like. Maddie always be slightly late
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or always slightly. Early.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, Katie, Read minds or
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be invisible. Read minds.
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Yeah, yeah, Read minds all. Right.
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Did you just read her mind? I did.
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Actually, yes, you. Guys.
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Are incredible. Women already can.
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When it would be invisible then, so you could do both.
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You don't need that superpower. You already have it, Blake.
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Unlimited time or unlimited money?
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Unlimited time because I can make still make money on all
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that time. Right.
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That's a defining Yeah, it's a funny piece of you.
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Like that's right. OK, Sean, never.
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No, this is a bad one for you. Never use social media again or
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never watch TV again. Well, actually both.
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It's a pretty easy idea, I know. And I may, I may do that
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starting in June of 2026. I mean, the TV one is easy, you
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know, depending on what you count as TV, right.
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But social media, yeah, yeah, I may just get off of the social
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media just forever. I might.
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Or for at least for like 10 years, you know, 'cause then you
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do. Like, this is just me going way
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off on a tangent here, but like, you do like Doctor Dre does.
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This is 1. Thank you.
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This is 1. No, but like, you do like Doctor
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Dre does, and you only drop an album every seven years, you
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know, So then it builds up to it, you know, like this guy's
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been off social media for seven years and then comes back on the
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Instagram algorithm, shows everybody your story if you take
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like that much of A hiatus. OK, So anyway.
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So it's about the comeback. It's about the comeback, yes.
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Sean's back every Yeah. You you create FOMO.
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You create FOMO in the algorithm.
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That's right. I I think it's a real thing you.
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Have it all worked out. I love it.
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OK, OK, good Ben, have a rewind button or a pause button for
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life. Rewind, Rewind.
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Yeah, yeah, I could go back and fix the mistakes.
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Sure. Are they mistakes or are they
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necessary? Learning opportunity.
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OK, there you. Go.
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There you go. OK Rob, be famous or be wealthy.
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Oh, I guess be famous. Yeah.
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It's easier if I'm already famous.
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It's easier to also become wealthy.
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But if I'm wealthy without being famous, there's probably a
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reason I don't want to be famous with this wealth.
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Yeah, yeah. What would you want to be famous
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for? I.
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Don't know, probably for being a famous writer or an artist or
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something. Yeah.
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You. Were right you were writing out
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there? Were you getting ready for AD
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and D thing? Or no, I just, I just wanted to
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something to do with my brain and my hands and drawing and
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writing little adventure D&D stuff like that is a good way to
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keep my ADHD occupied. So I made a little battle map
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and based around like the lake that we have out here actually,
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and wrote little scenarios and scenes and like here's this
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place and here's what it's like and just all this, the
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imagination stuff. I like it.
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I try to do that instead of look at my phone too much.
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It's a good goal, Yeah. It's a very good call.
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Anything. Cuz I tell my daughter not to
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look at screens all the time, so now I have to not look at
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screens all the time too. Yes.
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That's awesome, Rob. Yeah, that's really.
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Great. They lead from the front.
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You do, and it's hard. Yeah, it's hard to lead by
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example. Cuz I'll be like don't, don't,
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don't, don't look at your screen so much, yeah.
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Right. Scroll on my phone.
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It can't be like can be that guy.
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We've been doing that a lot more.
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We've been coloring a lot with the girls and it's so great.
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I haven't like drawn. I used to be in a cartooning
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class when I was a kid. I wasn't good at like drawing
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real hands. They say if you can draw like a
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hand, you can draw realism. I could never, could never get
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it right. So they signed me up for a
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cartooning class. Cool.
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It's come in handy. He's fantastic at drawing like
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cartoon stuff. It's really fun.
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Beast at Pictionary. Oh, that's, that's great.
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This is the side follow question.
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Who has like an artistic side? If there was an artsy part of
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you, what would you have been? Shaking his head furiously.
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Definitely not not there's I disagree.
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There's something. What's the most artistic part of
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you, perhaps? Cooking.
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The. Artist going.
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To say culinary. Arts.
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That's very true. That's your canvas, Rob.
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Writing. Would you say writing or?
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Writing. I actually used to want to be a
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cartoonist. There was a long time I wanted
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to be a comic book illustrator. Like that was like my plan.
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My life was through like 5th through 8th grade.
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That obviously didn't wind up happening, but I love drawing.
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Drawing, writing, obviously doing Dungeons and Dragons I
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consider sort of like an art because it's like theatrical
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cooking. Talking about my own podcast and
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stuff like this. Like anything creative and
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artistic, I like it. Except for music.
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I can't do music. It's the RF podcast was the.
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RF podcast. RF Fitness podcast.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm wearing this shirt.
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Actually you are keep questing. Keep questing everyone.
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We tried doing DND a couple of these outings last two years and
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I thought that we had Lion. It's great.
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I had no idea what to expect. And I'm like, it's like, as you
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put, I think you're like writing the book along the way.
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Like you pretty much structure. Yeah.
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And then we just, like, decide it's like those old Goosebumps
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books, like turn to page 23. We could choose an adventure
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story, yeah, but yeah. But like Ken, we're all writing
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it at the same time. But it's kind of a big idea.
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And if it's hard to get subscribed to it, it's it's hard
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to have fun. Yeah, yeah.
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If you don't have like, a really, like, visual
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imagination, I think it's really tough If you're not big on
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reading stories and listening to stories by yourself, it's pretty
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much yeah, yeah. Maddie, what do you, what would
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you say most artistic component? In the kitchen, yeah.
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Culinary arts, yeah. I do have a little musical
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background, so I do play the flute, but I wouldn't
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necessarily call that creative because I'm reading.
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Oh, you're creating. You're creating, Yeah.
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I suppose. Everyone's.
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Everyone's just copying something.
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Else not everyone. And there's no realist few
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artists, right? I know, and that's what I I.
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Yeah, I feel like I didn't know that you played the flute.
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Why have you not? It wasn't lost.
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It. Out.
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Did you bring it here? Yeah, actually I'm just like,
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wait with me everywhere and. No, I'm glad we're on the same.
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Page like an actually, yeah, and.
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Waiting. Waiting for.
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This funny as you actually slept.
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Out of her sleep. I just prepare a little bit
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later pops out. Yeah.
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I thought you never asked. Yeah, I've been waiting.
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For this moment, Katie, what's the most artistic part of you?
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Oh. Boy, there's a lot.
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I like crafting things like making clothing or like
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personalizing apparel like our soda jerseys.
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And I like, I love woodworking and making.
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You need a lot of space and time to do a lot of these things, so
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it'll come back. When I met Katie I didn't
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realize that I had one core of the tool.
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She had like power tools and everything.
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So now we have like 3 circular saws and three air compressors.
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Yes, I like creating things. Yeah, yeah, Tools.
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Blake, what would you say? I would say I can go the
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culinary route and like if you need me to organize and do like
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interior design, I can help with that.
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Like I did that at, I did that at the last gym where we had a
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whole renovation of like moving. Around the place.
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What? Yeah.
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No, no, we just did one of. Those.
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I know, that's the thing. I opened my big mouth.
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To our GM and he's like, how about you draw out a blueprint?
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And then we'll set it all up and I'm like, oh crap, now I wish I
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wouldn't have said anything. Well, you now are gonna have a
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few more responsibilities. By the headache.
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For that nugget of info. Pretend like he doesn't know how
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to cut a hole in drywall. OK.
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OK, buddy. That's good to know.
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I love it. Sean, most artistic part of you?
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Well, I would love to be a rapper and I'm hoping at some
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point in the future, you know, because realistically, this
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personal training thing is not gonna work out for that long,
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you know, I mean, like. Because of the AI.
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Probably, yeah. I mean, like at some point, you
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know, it's a job that will take a little bit longer to get get
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replaced by AI, but it will happen.
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The rapping. No, no, no, no wrapping is going
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to take a debatable, but no, no personal trainers will be
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replaced by AI at some point soon enough.
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And it's, we're going to get into a world where people, like,
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all we're good for is our creativity and these random art
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skills, right? And like, the problem with me as
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a rapper is like, I'm a decent lyricist, but I don't have a
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great flow yet. So I'd have to work on that.
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And then I wouldn't really know which voice to use, you know?
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Because like my regular random voice just just wouldn't make
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any sense to like, rap like this, you know?
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But I'm pretty good with languages.
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I'm decent with like other accents and stuff.
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So maybe I could figure something out.
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So I haven't really thought through that.
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So that is my backup plan though if soda fails.
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Dude that could be like your whole shtick is like rapping in
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several languages on the. Same.
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Yeah, I was gonna say so. You speak 4 languages, Bengali
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you speak. Well, OK, what I really want to
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get. Any big Bengali rappers?
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So. Could you take that mark?
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Yeah, but that's. A serious question.
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OK, hold on, hold on, hold on. So Bengali is the worst of the
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languages that I speak because I am still learning it.
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So my fiance speaks Bengali. But I mean, OK, so if we really
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want to go into that. So I speak Spanish and
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Portuguese pretty damn good. Arabic's still and pretty good.
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French mediocre, whatever, right.
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I mean, the the multilingual rap scene, if I can put it that way.
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Yeah. We might have to brainstorm.
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Let's hold that thought and brainstorm it after the episode,
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you know? Yeah, some potential, but thank
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you for the question. Yeah, absolutely.
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OK, OK, let's see, let's see one more.
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OK, here's here's one that will do one more altogether, not at
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the same time, but then we'll wrap it up with this one.
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As far as these questions, would you rather have dinner with your
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younger self or your future self?
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Then why don't you take that one first?
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I think similarly to pausing or rewinding, I would have dinner
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with my past self and tell them all the things they could do
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better and then I'd be a better future self.
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What if you could learn from your future self and from here?
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On I don't think I need to learn about my future stuff from here
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on out. I think that fix my earlier
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mistakes. That's fair, That's fair.
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But then you wouldn't be who you are today.
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And you're pretty. You're pretty wonderful because
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of your past experiences. I wouldn't change you a bit.
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That's so nice. It's all sweet.
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Like what it I mean I mean that. Rob Yeah.
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Would you rather have dinner with you and yourself or your
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future self? Future Self.
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Yeah, that's quick. Yeah.
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What got you there so fast? Well I always know the answers
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to questions but for one thing is I made a question the answer
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doesn't actually matter. So it's easy to have a quick
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answer on low stakes thing, but a future self, because I'm often
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very like I have a daughter who's six.
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I'm very concerned about the future overall.
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So kind of knowing like what's coming down the pipes, like what
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to expect. Like anyone with kids of any age
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knows that there's always a surprise, something like some
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brand new thing you'd never thought of was going to happen
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about this kid that you're going to have to address for the first
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time ever in real time. So to have like any sort of
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headway on that would be pretty cool.
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Yeah. And I guess, you know, to invest
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in Bitcoin or whatever. Yeah, right.
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Exactly. Whatever the next.
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Question no, the Boo boos are the real deal you need to get a
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bunch right now yeah like for 20 years in the future we're.
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Going to be trading with Boo. Boo.
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That's your money. That's your money, the American
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dollar. For new currency.
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It's a la Boo Boo based economy from.
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Now 500 la Boo boos, I don't know what they were.
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And someone's like, it's just a doll.
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I'm like, yeah, it doesn't seem like that.
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It's just a Beanie Baby gamble. So yeah, it's something to
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report to us. That'd be good, Maddie.
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Mine would be the same answer as Ben's, so easy and quick.
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All right, for the record, I wouldn't change you at all
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either. Katie, same question for.
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You very similar to Rob's answer.
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I wouldn't change a thing about my past because it brought me to
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where I am now and I'm very thankful for all of that.
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But yes, having kids makes the future a little uncomfortable
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because you don't have control over it nor can you predict or
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plan for it. So it would be nice to speak to
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my future self and be like, you know how you were so worried
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about. Blah blah blah.
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Just don't. And just having that reassurance
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would be very comforting, yeah. Quick follow up question, how
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come you didn't say that you would change anything about me
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or not? Just curious because you kind of
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you talked about them. No, you didn't.
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Just you actually didn't answer that question.
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I'm just kidding, I know. But I also wouldn't change
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anything about you well or any of you.
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You guys are all really great. It's.
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Really sweet. Oh yeah, Blake, dinner with your
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younger self or future? I'd go future that way if some
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things didn't work out for him, I can manipulate those.
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Oh. Yeah, manipulation.
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OK, You seen that movie Butterfly Effect with Ashton
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Kutcher? See, that's what I'm saying.
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That's what I mean is like, you can't.
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You can't mess with the past. That's right, we've seen too
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many movies about. That, but in the future they
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have the technology to make it. That's right.
21:35
That's right, Sean. Dinner with the younger self for
21:38
future. Dinner with future self.
21:40
Not because I wouldn't change anything about the past.
21:42
I would change like 100 things about my past if I could, but I
21:46
would. So here's how I would frame
21:48
this. Like if you could say, like,
21:50
hey, we're gonna have, you're gonna have dinner with your
21:51
future self from 2100, right? Like you're guaranteeing me that
21:55
I live to be 111. Like Cyborg Sean?
21:58
Well, yeah. And then, like, I wouldn't even
21:59
really give a shit what we eat for dinner and what we talk
22:02
about. Like, I don't even care.
22:03
It's like, all right, cool. Then I just go back to the
22:04
present and I know I have 75 more years.
22:07
Like, what a deal, right? So yeah, it wouldn't even be
22:10
anything. It's cool.
22:11
You'd stay alive, you know? So yeah, that's.
22:14
Fantastic. Yeah, OK.
22:16
Good. What's your answer, Mr. Shrub,
22:19
to? Which one, additional parks or
22:21
theme parks? I, I, I was just asking.
22:25
I did not think about it at all. I think past stuff is tricky.
22:30
There's lots of things you could say you want to change, but it's
22:33
tough because it does align things with where you're at now
22:37
in life. There's lots of things I thought
22:39
at the moment that needed to happen.
22:42
I thought I had to go to PT school and do all that.
22:44
I was like convinced, like that's my path.
22:46
I thought it was that that clear and then I didn't.
22:49
And that's obviously led to, you know, the gym and everything.
22:52
And I probably would have been miserable as a physical
22:54
therapist. I would have been miserable.
22:57
So, you know, you're just so caught up.
23:00
And so I think I crossed enough of those barriers that I think
23:04
future self would be interesting, you know, see if I
23:07
in fact, you know, ended up getting hair implants or
23:09
something. You know, what's, what's the
23:12
technology like with that? Yeah, stupid.
23:16
That's what happens when you ask me questions, OK?
23:18
Imagine being filled with hair is quite.
23:21
I'll show you a picture. Used to have the long sweeping
23:23
like hockey hair look. You know the cow lick.
23:25
I had all that. Justin Bieber hair.
23:28
Well, never quite that far. It was never thick enough for
23:31
that, but I was born with my dad's like receded hairline, you
23:36
know, So I started off in a, in a deficit like.
23:39
Born with a widow's feet. That's right.
23:40
I was, everyone was always like, you look so much older than you
23:44
are. And I was like, they think I
23:45
look mature. And I was like.
23:46
They're like. Balding dude.
23:49
That's what they need. So I don't need to speak to that
23:51
kid because he's he's totally ignorant and blissful, so.
23:55
We'll leave that be. That's all I had as far as the
23:59
this or that's you guys think you wanna, I don't know, tell us
24:03
what what you do on any any week.
24:05
If you had a week off, you could do anything.
24:08
What would you do with that time?
24:10
Well, you know, I guess I'd like to ask that with you guys.
24:13
It's a question I generally wanna know, Ben.
24:17
Yeah, if I had a week off, I would definitely pick some new
24:23
destination that I haven't been to get a really nice hotel or
24:28
Airbnb. Cuz I do really value relaxing
24:31
and like having a comfy bed and like coming back to something
24:35
and like being very chill, not having an agenda, but just
24:39
enough adventure, just enough trying new things, love food,
24:42
coffee shops, breweries, etcetera.
24:45
So definitely would want somewhere new to explore, but
24:48
also something like really cozy and chill to like have lazy
24:51
mornings and maybe a glass of wine or two at night and just
24:56
chill maybe with a view like a cool balcony either at the beach
25:01
or a cityscape. Yeah, that's kind of what I
25:05
would do. Just adventure around, have no
25:08
agenda, check out new things, keep it low key, have.
25:12
You been to Italy? No, but I think I would really
25:15
do well. I think that's Italy.
25:18
Yeah, I think most of Europe I would do really well.
25:22
Yeah, I. Love it.
25:23
Rob. About a week off, I'd probably
25:27
go to jiu jitsu every day. Yeah, I'd probably go to jiu
25:30
jitsu every day. I'd say I'd call my friends
25:36
Monday morning so we can play Dungeons and Dragons Tuesday
25:39
night, and then I'll roll after that session, play another game
25:43
on Friday night, Do that 'cause I need time to plan for running
25:46
the game in between. And then just spent a lot of
25:49
time in the garden and like cooking with the girls and being
25:53
kind of a homebody. I don't go places anymore.
25:56
I don't need to. I don't.
25:58
Want to? Yeah.
25:59
I pay for this whole mortgage, man.
26:00
We gotta spend time at the house.
26:02
It's so expensive. Why would I want to go somewhere
26:04
else? Yeah, I get my money's.
26:07
Worth. Yeah.
26:08
Maddie, what would you say? If yeah, it wasn't a vacation.
26:13
Just catch up on, you know, do some, do some laundry.
26:16
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Do.
26:17
Some grocery shopping. And you can do whatever you do,
26:20
chores, let's say money's like nothing.
26:22
And you know you got. If money is not a factor then
26:24
absolutely I'm booking a cruise without Rob.
26:27
Yeah. Going.
26:30
Sam's going on a trip, but like cuz I don't yeah, I don't really
26:35
can't can't afford a luxury cruise.
26:37
So with money being a factor, I'm hanging out at home getting
26:41
stuff done, enjoying not working.
26:44
Yeah. Yeah.
26:46
You can. Yeah.
26:48
I'm gonna stop. You can absolutely go on a
26:51
cruise, Katie. I'm on a Carnival cruise.
26:53
You should spend a little bit more than what we did.
26:55
That was like. It's cheap as well.
26:56
No, I. Royal Caribbean.
26:58
I will never go on another cruise line other than Royal
27:00
Caribbean. I had a blast on that one.
27:05
Well then, that one's 2022 spending.
27:07
I think next year's retreat should be out of.
27:10
I don't think I want to go on a boat like that again.
27:13
No, I need to like, I think to be able to like run away
27:16
somewhere. That's the whole thing.
27:19
You have nowhere to go. You're stuck.
27:21
You're stuck in a neighborhood for an indeterminate amount of
27:23
time with people you've never met in close quarters.
27:26
Well, you have your own room you can go back to and just.
27:28
Well, yeah, but it's like right on.
27:30
You're living in a part. I spent four years in dorms.
27:32
No, I did. I spent two years in dorms and
27:34
that was bad, and that wasn't even on a part of the world that
27:37
will actively kill me if I just walk away too far.
27:40
That's fair that I will attest to that.
27:42
When we were getting off at our Haiti stop, they're like not
27:47
like walk past the really buff militiamen with machine guns and
27:53
just go, go down a little bit further down the beach.
27:55
I was like. Oh, they said, they said you
27:58
can. You can go up and see them, but
28:00
don't go past. Them then they were like just
28:02
standing. Feel like they're still too
28:03
close, you know, if you can see them, you should probably go
28:06
the. Other way but but now I was
28:08
looking at cruises a couple weeks ago and go to Haiti.
28:10
It's really cheap so. Weird because of the militia,
28:13
did you? Get that militia bonus.
28:16
Yeah, that's right, the active militia.
28:17
Cheap want to go to this area that's, you know, that's kind of
28:19
iffy, but like I want to save a few bucks.
28:20
It's all about a bargain. Katie, Katie a week, a week.
28:25
What would you do? I was listening to you guys
28:29
answer and it's really challenging for me to like
28:33
picture a week because like I want to go on a trip with the
28:37
girls, but then but then also I don't yeah, right.
28:41
I want to go on a trip with you but I also don't right like.
28:46
I'm picky. Yes, Maddie and I can.
28:52
Go on a cruise with Maddie. I can go on a cruise with Maddie
28:55
as long as then I don't, but I won't bring my computer, so I
28:59
can't do any work. So then you're going to have to.
29:01
It's hard to like picture what that looks like to be really
29:05
honest. Have you ever done an Eat Pray
29:06
Love solo adventure Pray? Love no she goes, but I
29:13
definitely would. Just go hike up the that trail
29:16
on the West Coast solo. Just sit with your thoughts.
29:19
And I definitely will one day. But right now it's, it's
29:23
challenging to like to remove myself.
29:27
And then it's like we've only been away from the girls for
29:31
like 2 days. But I'm like, I want to, I want
29:34
to see him. I want to talk to him.
29:35
It's tough right now, yeah. Blake.
29:41
Well, I think I'm escaping out West to go off the grid at some
29:43
national parks and. Stuff.
29:45
With his cowboy hat. Can you hunt?
29:49
Like, do you find joy in hunting?
29:51
Like would you use time to do that?
29:53
To talk to friends, they always want to do an elk hunt in like
29:56
Colorado or Idaho or something like that.
29:57
That would be fun. But after watching some videos
30:00
of people doing it, that's a hell of a lot of hiking and a
30:03
lot of ground cover. Now you don't think you have the
30:06
stamina for it or what? I don't know.
30:08
I don't think my knees will hold up.
30:09
Yeah, you got bad knees. All these old knees.
30:13
All right, Shawn. Shawn.
30:15
Yep. What you got?
30:17
For me, my fiance and I would go on a trip.
30:20
We would go probably go France, Lebanon, Morocco, Portugal and
30:26
then back in a week and well, we can.
30:28
Do. Some we can do that.
30:30
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, just one night stay in all of them.
30:32
And it'd be cool because like so she would, you know, she would
30:36
want to do like the five star Rizzorti thing, like everywhere.
30:38
And I'd be like, no, because I can't stand that.
30:40
Like I just whenever I go to a different country, I cannot
30:43
stand the whole like all inclusive thing.
30:46
You know, it's just, it's not an authentic experience.
30:49
Whatever. So we would probably argue over
30:51
that quite a bit. But like, in terms of like what
30:55
we would do, well, I mean, I don't really do relaxing that
30:58
well, so yeah. So weird to hear from.
31:01
You in terms of like what we would do, I mean, we would go to
31:05
some local coffee shops. I would find there's OK, so I'm
31:09
a member at anytime fitness. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to
31:11
say that on this podcast, but fuck it anyway.
31:13
But so like there is there are any times all around the world.
31:18
It's so cool. When I was in Morocco a couple
31:20
of years ago, they have one in in Casablanca, which is great.
31:24
Nice gym. OK.
31:26
They don't have sodas everywhere around the world.
31:28
So if if you branch out at some point I I would go but Morocco.
31:33
Next satellite location, right? Yeah.
31:36
So, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you would work out.
31:38
Yeah, I would drag her to the gym with me a little bit.
31:42
Yeah. And we would have some coffee
31:43
and then apparently see some of the touristy stuff too.
31:46
And then we would we would fly home, you know?
31:48
Yeah, Yeah, I guess. That's it isn't so interesting
31:50
of people vacation so so differently.
31:53
You know, people are like I want agenda or I don't or I want the
31:55
nice stuff. I want to be catered to or I
31:57
don't. I like do not do well staying in
32:00
a nice place where people are like here Sir, let me like pull
32:03
your chair out. We, Katie and I went to a place
32:05
for like our anniversary trip like last last year went to this
32:08
place. It was like a relatively cheap
32:11
place to eat, but the service was incredible.
32:13
Like 8 people doing different things.
32:14
Someone's job was literally just to fill up the cup of water.
32:17
This was not like an expensive place, but I was like, it's OK.
32:20
Like you can just leave that pocket of water.
32:23
And I was like, well, maybe that's like that's his job.
32:25
Like if I start doing that. It was, it was incredible.
32:28
It was up their system. It was a crazy good experience.
32:31
And I was like, how much is this going to be like, did I misread
32:33
the pesos? Like, and it was totally
32:36
reasonable. I mean, it was like twice as
32:38
good as like a nanny's experience for half the cost.
32:41
I need to look up what it's called because.
32:44
It was. It was like some straight name.
32:45
It was a it was a steakhouse. Yeah, in Cancun.
32:49
Oh, that's right. Yeah, and like part one of one
32:53
of their desserts is like this giant cotton candy thing that
32:58
they bring out on this big everything is gold.
33:01
I I need, I need to look up what it's called because it was.
33:05
I highly recommend the experience.
33:06
Yeah, if you're in Cancun. And it was not, it was not
33:09
outrageous. The cost was not.
33:13
It was, it was amazing. What were you guys want to get
33:17
from here? I got 2 tangents left.
33:20
Oh boy. You do.
33:21
You haven't even done a metaphor yet.
33:22
You've not done AI. Don't think I'm.
33:24
Just getting them going. How's that?
33:25
No, I'm going to do 1 today. No, I mean, I'll find some, you
33:29
know, I, my plan at some point was to like put things into
33:33
perspective for people when we talk about like what personal
33:35
trainers do for fun, you know, and just to like, you know, just
33:39
as an example, because we always obviously as coaches and
33:42
trainers, we have to talk to people about, you know, their
33:43
lifestyle, right? You got, OK, you got to work
33:45
out, but then you got to eat a certain way, you got to sleep,
33:47
you got to do all these other things, right?
33:48
And just like sometimes I feel like people don't understand,
33:52
like, you know, if you want to get into like really, really
33:54
good shape, like how boring your freaking life has to be
33:57
sometimes, like as an example, you know, like yesterday, it was
34:02
Friday night here, you know, me and and Blake and Rob were
34:06
playing video games until 10:45 PM, which is like the wildest
34:10
thing that I've done in like, I mean, it's like an hour later
34:13
than I regularly stay up. Like this is wild.
34:15
You know, like up till 10:45 with bright lights in a screen
34:18
still, heaven forbid, didn't even have my blue light, didn't
34:24
even bring them on the trip. Like I am rogue this weekend.
34:26
I am off my fitness patterns, obviously not drinking, thinking
34:29
I don't I haven't drank in like 4 years, but like wild night
34:32
right up till 10:45 K playing video games Mario Kart yes
34:37
exactly and and for the record, you know to talk about the talk
34:40
about the things that I've done for fun in my life Mario Kart
34:44
Nintendo 64. If anybody listens to this and
34:47
thinks that they can beat me at that game, I will bet you
34:54
$10,000. I won't get my Life savers.
34:56
I will bet anybody $10,000 on it, OK?
35:00
We could even make it 1 Grand Prix, or we could do like a
35:02
series of time trials. But Mario Kart on Nintendo 64,
35:06
OK. I will bet anybody no one.
35:07
Is he's quite bad. Here he's good, he's confident.
35:11
I wouldn't say arrogant. Very.
35:12
Confident. No, I'm fucking arrogant.
35:14
Never mind. I will be arrogant and cocky at
35:16
Mario Kart 64. I will be more arrogant and
35:19
cocky than I am against Jerry, our client Jerry, in those
35:23
basketball shoot offs that we have.
35:24
OK, too. Poor Blake.
35:25
He's like, come on, Blake, run it again.
35:27
Let's go, let's go. Such.
35:28
A sweaty nerd. I've never seen someone so
35:30
aggressively handle a controller before.
35:32
Yeah. I've never like played where the
35:35
joysticks are clacking that loud.
35:36
I. Think that Sean's like.
35:38
Shaking. His.
35:38
Hand, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's gotta take breaks.
35:42
Every two to three Grand Prix cuz his thumb's killing him.
35:45
Well, like I was telling you guys, I have a very addictive
35:47
personality, which is why I try to stay away from the bad stuff.
35:50
You know, I've got don't use drugs because I would get I
35:52
would beat the fucking like craziest addict you could ever
35:55
imagine. Right.
35:56
Like, yes, literally, yeah. And like get in with.
35:59
Other rappers that you wouldn't be like.
36:00
Exactly. Well, so at some point in the
36:01
future maybe be the right move, but like for right now, it's not
36:04
a good. Drug It won't ever be the right
36:06
move to become a big drug addict.
36:08
Unless obviously, well, technically.
36:10
You don't want it. Technically you just are talking
36:11
about that I'm drinking, but. Yeah, you go ham on the coffee.
36:15
I do go ham on the coffee a little bit, but This is why I
36:18
don't own video games. This is why I don't have video
36:20
games in my house because like the one time once a year that I
36:22
play them, you guys see what happens.
36:24
Like I would just go for like 7 hours basically.
36:26
You guys know I. Wish we had a film of him
36:28
playing Goldeneye and how he was just.
36:30
Smacking every. Time he died.
36:32
He was. He was.
36:33
Doing again just a couple hours. Punching the couch with a smile
36:37
on his baby time. I just sleep from 10:00 to 1:10
36:39
to 2:00. Run it back.
36:42
Run it back. Let's go again.
36:45
I'm so sad I missed it all. Week.
36:47
You're going to see more of it, yeah.
36:49
You can't avoid it. It'll find you.
36:51
Oh, my God, that's so funny. Yeah.
36:55
No, I totally know what you're saying.
36:57
It's like there's this procession of personal trainers
37:00
and you're like, wow, you must eat good all the time.
37:02
You probably don't do any of this.
37:04
And a lot of people think we, like, judge them even when they
37:06
tell us things. It's like, well, I had this or
37:08
that. You know, we're coaches.
37:10
We're not. We're not judges.
37:11
And so it's it's a matter of, you know, we're real people too.
37:16
Like, yeah, Katie are at this wedding last night and I had a
37:18
couple drinks. A lot of people, I don't know,
37:20
she's like, jeez. But we do a lot of the same
37:24
stuff. But a lot of times they a
37:26
process or the awareness is a little bit different.
37:30
But but yeah, we're real people too.
37:34
Yeah. You may also have some thoughts
37:36
of that and they want to share. I got plenty.
37:40
More stuff. Someone beside Sean want to
37:42
share something? I don't be shy.
37:45
I don't know. I don't.
37:46
I don't. Know see the.
37:47
This or that are way better, right?
37:49
Yeah. Little AD libs.
37:51
Sean, what's your second tangent?
37:53
No, I did the second one. I mean, I can do the third one,
37:55
but somebody just say something. I can get a third one real
37:57
quick. Yeah, more than happy.
38:01
Well, let's put it this way. What's 1 common perception of a
38:04
personal trainer you think you guys think other people have?
38:07
That's maybe not true. Plus some myths.
38:09
Oh man, yes. Myth busting about personal
38:11
trainers. Yeah, yeah.
38:13
You got one in mind? That we all work out all the
38:16
time and have a six pack. Not true.
38:18
Yeah. Not true, no.
38:19
Only one of us has worked out this morning.
38:22
That's right. And she worked out for like 4
38:23
hours. Four.
38:24
Or. Five hours she was.
38:25
Gone. If you combine all the time we
38:27
would spend working out, it was right.
38:28
Yeah, Maddie did all of it for us.
38:30
Maddie, what'd you do in there? Could you tell us the routine
38:32
this morning? It'd be fun.
38:33
I'm sure. So we started off 30 minutes on
38:36
the stairs and then absolutely no warm up straight into leg
38:40
day. So I don't have time for a warm
38:42
up you. Didn't have time?
38:45
We're gone for. Like 4 hours.
38:46
My warm up was the Stairmaster. Yeah, that's true.
38:48
Yeah. Yeah, leg day.
38:52
What's leg day? Come on now.
38:54
This morning it was 5 by 12 hip thrust superset with 5 by 20
39:01
plank dips. And then we did a little heel
39:04
elevate, heel, heel elevated offset kettlebell squats paired
39:10
with cable Rd. LS.
39:12
And then we did some hyperextensions with what did I
39:17
do with that? Penguin Crunches.
39:22
No, no cable chops. Chops.
39:28
Nice. And then we did some like
39:31
extension with a tall kneeling farmer press and then some
39:36
abductor abductors. I'm like, it's a fucking
39:40
workout. Fuck ton of all.
39:41
So that's so this is what I was telling Katie and Ben when I got
39:46
back was the weekends is like the only time I have to actually
39:50
have a lengthy session. And ever since I got puppy.
39:56
Well, there was a month and a half span where I didn't work
39:58
out at all. The most working out I did was
40:02
demonstrating an exercise on Monday or Friday morning.
40:06
And then I was like, I feel like garbage.
40:09
I'm gonna get, you know, my poop in a group now.
40:12
And I have AI have a whiteboard that I started tracking all of
40:18
some of visual person. And so I started my goal was to
40:21
get 4 workouts a week and then 10,000 steps a day.
40:25
And so I'd write each day. I fill it in and.
40:29
I finished five weeks and I was like, that was cool.
40:32
I took a picture of my whiteboard, erased it and
40:35
started again and so on. Now my I just need to.
40:39
I need to keep the. You want to refill that, you
40:42
want to fill that board up again because it felt really good.
40:45
No. Because every the days that I
40:48
lifted, did stairs and got 10,000 steps, I got a green
40:53
check mark. And so now it's like I want a
40:55
lot of green check marks. It's it's the same concept as
40:59
the gold stars. Gold stars.
41:02
But it looks good. Shiny.
41:03
I'm still I'm the only one who hates the gold stars.
41:05
It works. Never stop wanting them.
41:07
I yeah, one of the sticker. Clients love it.
41:09
Maybe it's like, it's a time when as kids, right, didn't like
41:12
elementary school and was like, blissful, we don't realize,
41:15
Yeah, now we're like, wow, that we thought that was tough.
41:17
It's not. But yeah, everyone listening.
41:19
I want to, you know, illustrate to you guys that we all struggle
41:23
with the same things too, like finding time for workouts, like
41:26
being motivated or finding that motivation or even relying on
41:29
motivation. It's still a struggle for
41:32
everybody. There's not some magic gene that
41:35
obviously gives us more success. Yeah, I think one of the things
41:40
that is maybe a myth or misunderstood is we literally
41:45
spend 4 to 8 hours a day at the gym and sometimes staying for
41:51
another hour or two for our own workout is like about it.
41:55
So much like could you imagine having to stay at work for fun
41:59
after you are done with work? Like it's not something that
42:02
comes easy to everyone. So I think a lot of us and I, we
42:05
joke about having other gym memberships and like, why don't
42:09
you just work out where it's free for you to work out?
42:11
It's because it creates this barrier of like this mindset of
42:14
we can go somewhere else. We can escape what our work job
42:17
is to go work out somewhere else.
42:20
And my favorite thing is that those people don't know you're a
42:23
fitness professional. They don't know you're a
42:24
personal trainer. So they're just letting you do
42:27
your thing. And there's some freedom to
42:28
that, which I really enjoy, which is why I pay for a gym
42:32
membership outside of the three gyms that I work at that I could
42:36
just have access to for free. So that's funny.
42:39
Right camera so. Yeah.
42:45
Yeah, what were we? I was just gonna say, well, I
42:47
mean, are there other myths? There's a lot of myths, but.
42:50
There's a lot, yeah. Although we all have some crazy
42:52
diet that we're always on, like it has to be keto or it has to
42:55
be milk or it has to be just fruit or it has to be vegan or
42:59
whatever. Like a personal trainer can't
43:01
eat like a normal person, Yeah. Yeah.
43:04
I also think a myth that just to kind of lift everyone up in
43:09
here, I think a lot of people just think personal trainers are
43:12
just kind of like meatheads or don't have brains and they just
43:17
work out for fun. But I think that especially at
43:21
Soda, a lot of us have really strong most emotional
43:25
intelligence and just empathy for other people.
43:28
I don't think that always comes about with the personal trainer
43:33
career path. You have to really work at it
43:37
and you become a therapist and we joke around about it, but you
43:40
have to do it. That is what I was trying to
43:44
come up with yesterday. That's right.
43:46
That's what it was. Because no.
43:48
So Katie and I went to Zorbas and we're playing darts, okay.
43:53
And these two, the gentleman walked over and wanted us to
43:59
play, and we were politely declining.
44:01
And they kept saying like, no play.
44:03
And Kaylee, Kaylee, Katie's like, well, I'll sit here and
44:06
Heckle you, stab him with a dart.
44:07
And so it started off as heckling, but then she went into
44:11
cheerleading and one of them said because they were like
44:14
questioning if she was a coach. And they said something like,
44:19
you, you aren't heckling like that's that's a cheerleader
44:21
because she started cheering him on.
44:22
And I was like, yeah, like we know how to.
44:25
I would go between Drill instructor, never missed and
44:28
cheerleader. He said are you a motivational
44:30
speaker? Like, are you a motivational
44:32
speaker? And I said, well, yes, obviously
44:35
are. You feeling motivated?
44:38
You just catch on to this. Yeah, what nice boys.
44:42
Yeah, so. They have the best intentions.
44:46
No, somebody can't read the room.
44:49
Yeah. Right.
44:50
Like I I did. I did feel like it was innocent.
44:53
Like I actually, I found it quite funny and fun.
44:56
Absolutely not there. Yeah, there was intentions.
44:58
There, Yeah. Was it the motivational speaking
45:01
comment that wow, you're so eloquent?
45:05
You know, it just all of a sudden they were at a table
45:09
across and then it was slowly they were leaning up against our
45:12
table and I was like we have got to go.
45:15
We have different. Inspired.
45:16
We gotta go. This is so funny because we have
45:20
very different, we had very different experiences.
45:25
I didn't experience any of that. Because I saw right through what
45:28
they were doing, yeah. But I.
45:29
Knew what was. Happening.
45:31
I'm not. I'm not.
45:32
I was not playing into it. I don't know.
45:34
Were they scooting their table over like an inch of their time?
45:37
They were, they were flirting and I was like, get out of here.
45:43
But a couple of boys were just enjoying their time.
45:45
They would probably not be at a bar necessarily be out.
45:48
I don't know it. Was there?
45:50
Yeah. Can I pose a question to the
45:52
group that I want to pull out of that story?
45:54
Yeah, Made Is that because you talked about your motivational
45:57
speaker now and then you said, yeah, we know how to kind of
46:01
cross those thresholds between cheerleader, coach and drill
46:04
instructor. Are there ports of your life?
46:07
What the fuck was that? Is there parts of your life
46:11
where you take that like kind of coach voice or that those those
46:15
soft skills that we use at work and you apply them to somewhere
46:17
outside of the gym? Like I find myself doing coach
46:20
stuff with Olivia A. Lot.
46:22
You know, just like the language you use, the way you back it up,
46:24
the way you lead from the front and do XYZ's or 1-2 threes with
46:28
the kid. You know, if you're a parent,
46:30
obviously it's going to be like the really easy place to put it,
46:32
but those are other places that you do or have in the past would
46:36
be interesting. Yeah, we'll make sure they speak
46:40
in the microphone. Make sure we speak in the
46:42
microphone. There we go, Rob, I'll just jump
46:45
in. Yeah, absolutely, 100%, mostly
46:47
parenting. You got to know like what what
46:49
gears to kind of turn on based on how well they're going to
46:52
receive or not receive a certain style.
46:54
So it's, yeah, I think it's working with people and that
46:57
idea of empathy and trying to understand what's going to be
47:01
beneficial. Yeah, it's very common with
47:04
parenting. And you know, I coached Jay's
47:06
soccer team too, and that same, same stuff, I mean.
47:11
Screaming at those more burpees and stuff like that.
47:13
Just like at work with their. Yeah, with their kicks.
47:15
Yeah, it's a bunch of soccer team.
47:17
I had to run sprints. I had them run sprints.
47:20
Like I'm fast. Yeah, yeah.
47:21
They like doing that, though. It's not punishment.
47:24
And by the time I have kids, I'm going to be so done with
47:26
empathy. I already like.
47:28
I think it might, yeah. It might make it tough.
47:30
I'm turning into a full on. Drilling it does touch.
47:33
You I I'm done with empathy, maybe a little cheerleader vibe,
47:36
but I'm done. I'm no I.
47:39
Can't do it anymore. I think empathy is part of our
47:41
our DNA. I don't think I think we can
47:43
work to make it better, but I don't know if I don't know.
47:45
Can we? Can we become less empathetic by
47:48
choice? You watch me, yes.
47:52
OK, watch out. Sean's client's very sorry.
47:55
No, you're a, you're a, you're a tremendous listener as is like,
47:58
like this is his whole team. The ability to, to shut our
48:01
mouth and listen, actually have our clients be heard.
48:04
That's an element of empathy. And that's really all I think it
48:07
takes for a trainer to have success with the clients, to
48:10
have them be heard and understood so they know they're
48:12
in the right place and we have their best intentions in mind.
48:17
So as long as we turn on a little bit, I think that's more
48:21
than most people get anywhere. Just a little bit.
48:24
Just a. Weird.
48:25
They get anywhere more than they get anywhere more than they get
48:28
at home, more than they get their spouse, more than they get
48:30
from work. In some cases, yeah, because
48:32
everyone's real tired. So sometimes people snuggle some
48:36
little snuggles. Because they need a soft section
48:39
and you give them a little cuddle.
48:40
You guys don't do that. Is this, is this the touch, one
48:42
of the seven elements of a good session?
48:44
Yeah. Gentle.
48:45
Touch 7 keys. Is this one point of physical
48:48
touch? We talked at great length.
48:49
OK, it's usually face. Yeah, but.
48:52
Or get a little spoon. We don't.
48:53
Have a good you ask them first, obviously.
48:57
Or little spoon. Yeah, permission to spoon.
48:59
Yeah. Do you like the?
49:00
Do you like the you're little I'm?
49:02
Sorry, that's that's awfully nice of you.
49:05
We didn't put a spoon or a a touch pause.
49:08
Rob, Rob, I'm going to need you to speak with HR after.
49:13
Yeah, OK. Wash this right.
49:15
But I like little spoons. Oh my gosh, oh, it's funny.
49:20
But anyone else said anything we kind of want to mention on that,
49:22
like training skills or techniques that are in other
49:26
places? I mean, becoming a trainer is
49:28
extremely beneficial not only to strengthen our own practice of,
49:32
of fitness, because one of the best ways to learn is to teach
49:37
course. And so I think the best trainers
49:40
have worked with all sorts of different body types, histories,
49:42
goals, dreams, aspirations, so that we're not just looking
49:47
through our own scope, which changes everything.
49:52
So as I've gotten older, everything's changed far as how
49:55
easy it is, what you should be doing and how the body feels.
49:59
It's, it's something you can only kind of experience.
50:03
So that's a big deal. Any of the big myths you guys
50:07
want to cover? Anything come to mind?
50:10
Blake being strong. Basically, go watch the myth
50:14
that Blake is strong. I I want to at some point watch
50:19
that the movie Dodgeball, you know, because Ben Stiller's
50:22
character of the Globo Jim. Yeah, Yeah, I, I watched that
50:25
before I was a coach and then probably six years into being a
50:28
coach. And it changes how you look at
50:30
all of that. But it really is.
50:32
Do you haven't seen the movie Dodgeball?
50:33
Like Ben Stiller's character is like the stereotype of like
50:36
White Goodman. He's got like, yes, yeah.
50:39
Exactly. We should watch that tonight.
50:41
He's got, he's got like the donut, he's got like the, you
50:44
know, electric things on his nipples.
50:46
And he like, he's like, come on, come on, eat it and.
50:48
Con Michelle, turn it up. It's.
50:49
So much like toxic culture that's got some merit because
50:54
it's been looked at that way. It's obviously a major
50:57
stereotype but it's just a very funny movie to watch cuz you're
51:01
like Oh my God. He plays that character so well
51:04
cuz also in heavyweight. As I say, it's the same
51:06
character as Head. Yeah, I'd seen that one.
51:08
I grew. Up on that movie that.
51:10
We're watching. Tonight, that's.
51:11
How to not be a personal trainer?
51:13
Oh my. God, Tony Perkins.
51:15
I'm perkinsizing. I'm criticizing Tony.
51:17
I don't know, but there's something like you all be skinny
51:20
meters. You're killing me, dude.
51:21
This is such a good film. It's about yeah, Ben Stiller is
51:24
a camp. Counselor Maddie hasn't seen it
51:26
either. At a weight loss camp.
51:29
OK. Which I do have experience
51:32
working at a weight loss camp for the summer with children,
51:35
and that's a whole nother podcast episode.
51:38
Yeah, lots to learn there. But yeah, you should definitely
51:41
watch the movie Heavyweights. You.
51:43
Could not pass today. Well, no, you.
51:46
Did not make no. These two haven't seen.
51:49
Me. I mean, I haven't seen I.
51:50
Haven't seen heavy. Not on this.
51:54
TV. No, there's another.
52:02
Room or something? But it's there's another living
52:05
room upstairs. We can either watch it up there
52:07
or see what Sean wants to put him in his little gaming Cove
52:11
because he's on one. Yeah.
52:13
He'll do the iPad kit. We just put him in the corner.
52:15
Yeah, yeah. I'm more than happy.
52:17
To. Be fair, he.
52:20
Can't change that. He can take the switch and go
52:22
sit in the. Corner.
52:23
I wouldn't know how to do that though.
52:24
Like Blake has to set it up for me because I'm not
52:26
psychologically smart enough on how to use the Switch.
52:28
I just know how to play Mario Kart on 64 from 1996.
52:32
I don't know how to set it up. It's probably better he doesn't
52:35
have the. Yeah, yeah.
52:37
Yeah. I'm glad I got a pass code on
52:41
there. Yeah.
52:42
Yes, the barrier is like how to turn it on.
52:45
Where is the. Power button.
52:47
You don't need a pass code. He's like how do I get this?
52:51
How do I get it rolled like started?
52:52
Sean, Sean is like, I think this is, I think this is broken.
52:56
Katie, just like, let's hit that button and then boom.
52:58
He's like, it's broken. I don't know, it's not working.
53:02
We can't do it. It's broken.
53:03
What do you guys think was broken?
53:04
He. I.
53:05
Was just he just? The machine turned it on.
53:07
I was just hitting that button. It's the button we always have,
53:09
but now you got that thing, we got to hit that button.
53:11
I added one one cord and. No, no, he just needed to hold
53:15
down the power button. Is that what it was?
53:18
Yeah, well, well, he. Just ran this button.
53:20
Didn't, yeah. Next time, Katie.
53:23
We're all learning, we're all on our own journey.
53:25
You'll do better next time. That's right.
53:27
I will I. Will, are you a motivational
53:28
speaker? Hey.
53:31
That's a line do. You like to speak on like stages
53:33
like yes, well, I mean, yeah, let's get some.
53:38
We're almost at an hour here. So I think like maybe closing
53:41
notes in some way, shape or form.
53:43
We have no agenda for this one other than that.
53:46
But you know, maybe like a major take away.
53:48
Like what what should our members know about us personally
53:51
that I think is, you know, has value for them to to know
53:55
anything and maybe it's too big of a question, but that's.
53:58
Too. Big like like what do you want
54:01
clients to know about you or like what is value about having
54:04
a personal trainer relationship? We could go really, you know, a
54:07
little bit deeper, like what's something that you think would
54:11
benefit them knowing about you because you deliver what we do
54:14
to them or either or fun unbeknownst party trick that
54:24
would make it easy. You can go deeper.
54:25
Not yeah. I think staying on theme with a
54:29
lot of what this podcast talked about, don't be afraid to engage
54:33
with us. 30 minutes, 60 minutes of a session is a long time and
54:38
I know some people like those sessions to be silent.
54:41
But getting to know us, asking us questions.
54:44
We don't just ask questions because we're filling space.
54:47
We do genuinely care about all the people we work with and we
54:50
want to know about them. It's not like we have a a test
54:54
after the sessions on how much we know about our clients.
54:57
But I think it's one of the best things about being a personal
55:00
trainer as you do get to see people every single week,
55:03
sometimes multiple times a week. I always tell people I see my
55:06
clients more than I see my friends and my family, so I
55:10
should know more about them. So trust us and get to know us.
55:15
We're not just robots, we're people.
55:17
Except for Blake. Yeah, but.
55:20
Program to eat, sleep, workout. It was a machine.
55:23
Yeah, no, we do have AI guess a client quiz.
55:26
I mean, there's those, there's eight kind of things we have in
55:28
the front, things we should know, right, Family, occupation,
55:31
relationships, dreams, goals, medical history.
55:34
Those are things we need to know to, like, keep you safe, but
55:36
also a lot of subjective ones that help us deliver a more
55:39
engaging session because, yeah, I mean, we should know them, as
55:43
you said. Yeah.
55:44
Then we do. All right, Rob, what do you
55:48
think? I mean, my favorite party trick
55:51
is that I can do one arm push ups, but in this group that's
55:54
probably not as impressive. Damn, it's.
55:56
Pretty. Bad.
55:57
OK, nevermind. That's pretty impressive then.
55:59
I feel pretty cool. Well, we're gonna do next.
56:02
Like a big take. Away I I would.
56:03
Then would say too. Yeah, we're.
56:04
Practical. Yeah.
56:07
What? Sorry, big take away.
56:08
Is just what Ben said. Yeah.
56:10
There were people too. Like, I wanna talk about what
56:12
they've got going on. I like when people ask me about
56:14
my stuff. If I have.
56:17
We have hobbies and interests. As it turns out, we can also
56:19
converse about that. Yeah.
56:21
Yeah, love it. Cuz I don't watch sports so I
56:24
have to look for things to talk about.
56:25
The ball game. Yeah, you see that Ludacris
56:28
display last night? Rob does Superb Owl.
56:32
Facts. I do.
56:33
I know more about owls and you. Will learn.
56:36
You will learn a lot. That's great.
56:39
It's my birthday, guys. Ask me and also Rob will tell
56:43
you how what of any plant outside which ones you can eat
56:46
or can't eat or making a tea. So he's good.
56:48
Got to know when stuff hits the. Or he or he will whittle roast
56:53
marshmallow sticks out of cattails.
56:55
That's right. We didn't have, well, we did
56:57
have roaster sticks, I just didn't know what they were
56:59
'cause that's. An idiot.
57:01
It was more fun to carve them out of the pond, by the way.
57:03
Yes. Maddie big take away or party
57:06
tree? Seconding Ben's statement.
57:10
But yeah, and then I'm a human. I like to work out and eat
57:14
clean, but I also like to eat junk food and drink beer.
57:17
Go. To Zorbas.
57:18
Oh yeah, go to Zorbas and play darts.
57:20
That's right. I I won by the way.
57:26
No. No for.
57:27
The sake of I picked you up afterwards.
57:29
For the sake of time, we'll just no all right.
57:34
And for the. Record a what is open in double
57:37
out means you have to hit the double.
57:40
We learned something. It sounds like it.
57:42
Wow Kitty, what do you say? Here's the biggest take away
57:46
party trick. I'm gonna need more time.
57:53
You don't have any? Yeah.
57:56
I'll get back to. You Blake, take away party
58:00
trick. When growth comes from leaving
58:03
the comfort zone, yeah. Mm hmm.
58:08
When he gets a house, he's gonna get that like a vinyl acrylic
58:11
and he's gonna put that in his living room.
58:13
He's like a like a lift laugh. Love Paint?
58:17
That over instead, yeah. Eat, sleep, lift.
58:19
Yep, seek just can't put. That in the kitchen.
58:23
Yeah. Do you have that like on a rib
58:24
tattoo? Should I?
58:25
Yeah. Dude for sure.
58:27
No. Yes, do you want the most of
58:28
answer your comfort zone rib tattoos of the worst?
58:31
Yeah, I had a friend that. He got the Statue of Liberty put
58:34
on his and he almost passed out from the pain.
58:39
As I've I have script here that's the goes like 1's on a
58:42
rib and the other's between the tissue and it was because if
58:46
it's on the rib, I can feel my entire skeleton vibrating as he
58:49
does a thing. And if it's the space between
58:51
the ribs, I can feel all my internal organs by that's the
58:54
just the the pan. Went over Really dude?
58:59
Oh my God, it's on my ribs. Wow someone and they got another
59:02
one on the other side that goes from the from the top of my
59:05
iliac Crest to the bottom of my top rib.
59:07
It's a memorial tattoo for my dad and I got that done by the
59:09
same guy. Hit my other one and I told him
59:11
after. If I ever tell you that I want
59:12
another tattoo on the midsection, I need you to punch
59:15
me in the mouth because this was awful and I never want to do.
59:20
It again put that in your client notes.
59:22
Yep. Great.
59:23
Don't let him. Do not see again.
59:26
Yeah. That's great, Sean.
59:29
Take away party trick. OK.
59:31
Than Mario Kart other than Mario.
59:32
No, no, no. It's gonna be about Mario Kart,
59:34
OK? Because everybody else gave
59:36
like, the good serious fitness advice and stuff like that.
59:38
So, yeah, just to reiterate, like if anybody wants to do the
59:43
$10,000 bet, okay, these are the ground rules.
59:47
If anybody listening wants this. No, no, no, no, don't get towed.
59:50
You don't get towed. I would be willing to do it with
59:53
a different character. I mean, I would pick Toad, but
59:55
if the other person gets to pick first and they pick Toad, that's
59:57
fine. But this is Mario Kart Nintendo
1:00:00
64, the 1996 version, OK? It has to be that.
1:00:03
It's not some Wii Mario Kart. I don't do those versions, OK?
1:00:06
I don't mess around with that, OK, Too high tech, but yes, it
1:00:09
is OK, But too many and we'll do I I think the way we would do it
1:00:12
is we do all four grand prixs, OK, So if we split them two to
1:00:16
two, then we go to 1/5 tiebreaker, OK, But this is 16
1:00:20
races, OK? At that point, it would
1:00:22
definitely be enough to determine who's better.
1:00:23
But I will take on anybody listening to this.
1:00:26
Anybody in the World $10,000? Cash, put it on it.
1:00:30
OK. Why?
1:00:30
You know what you should do is you should get a video of you
1:00:34
doing a run and like time trial that and anyone who can beat it
1:00:37
sends it to you and then that is like how you funnel actual
1:00:41
competitors. That's not a bad way to do it,
1:00:43
right? She in applicants.
1:00:44
Yeah, but she. Doesn't want to waste this.
1:00:46
Time, Let's be real, yeah. Although you'll probably spank
1:00:49
anyone just for fun, so. Yeah.
1:00:51
Why was that? I mean.
1:00:52
Seven years later, someone actually.
1:00:54
I know well, and this is going to be on the Internet forever,
1:00:58
you know what I mean? So people can, you know, you got
1:01:00
time. Guys, you got to give it a
1:01:01
little scarce. There's got to be.
1:01:02
The rest of the. Timeline, so we'll give them
1:01:03
until. I'll give them until 2048.
1:01:06
No, I'm getting 23 years. You got 23 years practice up and
1:01:09
then it's 10 grand. Because here's the thing, I
1:01:11
don't lose the skill set, OK? I've been playing this game
1:01:13
since I was 6, all right? I played this game like once per
1:01:16
decade nowadays, OK? And I still got it.
1:01:18
Just jumped in yesterday. Didn't even know which butt I
1:01:20
was going to. Didn't even know how to get off
1:01:22
the blocks. Blake beat me off the blocks
1:01:23
every week. OK, But then you just get in.
1:01:25
You're like, OK. It's true.
1:01:26
Now if I program AI to be in it, can I sell one?
1:01:31
I will give you 5 grand for that, OK?
1:01:33
OK. The other five goes to the AI I
1:01:36
think. Show up like a better AI the way
1:01:38
he's hacking the system. I mean, that'd take a while to
1:01:40
train that model, but what if you like, what did you start
1:01:43
getting Like carpal tunnel or something?
1:01:44
I saw the way you're shaking your.
1:01:46
Game. This is part of the game you
1:01:48
don't think I like? You think I haven't had carpal
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tunnel with that? Like I've dealt with this
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because it's like a football injury, OK, You're going to
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sprain your ankle every now and then or something.
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You know what? I like the game.
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You got a pay to play. Yes, and I don't think an AI is
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going to understand how to drift to orange.
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OK nobody knows what that means, I didn't know but drift to
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orange AI also doesn't know what it means 10.
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K. You have to drift to orange if
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you're going to beat me. That's right.
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So just giving it away for. Free right here on the podcast.
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Guys, you have to drift down there.
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Fantastic. Yeah, all.
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Right. Remember when we were ending
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this episode? That's remember.
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My party trick and then I'm going to close this up.
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You guys know the game. Five finger fillet.
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Yes. Where you put your fingers, you
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splay them on the table and you use a knife and you go, I was so
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good at college at all these parties.
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And I would, I would do it. My friends would beat the party.
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And they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, they knew.
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And I did it at parties. And I'm lightning fast now, you
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know, with my eyes closed on my own hand with a real knife.
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And I did that way too many times and scraped by.
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And I feel like I told my wife that, but now she's did.
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You do that like on your first date and you're like, holy shit,
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this is the. One, that's what.
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That's my begger. Man, yeah, she's like wow, this
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guy, wow, this guy plays redemption.
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So much that I want pretty good knife.
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Skills. Yeah, is that what woman looks?
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For worthless in the kitchen, right this.
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Is fascinating. So I was like, I think I should
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talk with my wife after this now.
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Anyway, I'll show you guys later watch it on YouTube anyway.
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Well, thank you guys for for being here and doing this.
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We appreciate you guys a ton. Of course.
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Thank you for listening. If you made it this far and you
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remember, I hope you enjoyed. Thanks everybody.
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Thanks. Thank you guys.
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Bye bye.