#2364 - Brandon Epstein

[00:00] Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. [00:17] fall into the camp who had their YouTube channel [00:19] deleted and we're talking about [00:21] like wellness like [00:23] Doctors talking about COVID stuff. There was a bunch of doctors that had their YouTube accounts deleted. Really? Yeah, it was a weird time. You know, it's a weird time. [00:32] The... [00:34] The world of medicine is interesting because you've got so many positives, right? Like people are healthier. They live longer today than they ever have been before. If you get certain diseases, they have cures for it that didn't exist before, right? [00:49] But there's financial incentives involved in prescribing medications that maybe people don't fucking need because they can make more money if more people take these drugs. And that's the problem. Like there's – we've got to separate – [01:03] the baby from the bathwater and know what to throw out, right? And it's, you can't throw out medicine. Like, that's crazy. It's amazing. Like what these pharmaceutical drug companies, in coordination with all these brilliant scientists have created, is the greatest medicine system the human race has ever known, at least probably. [01:22] Maybe the Mayans knew some shit. You know what I mean? There was some magic back then. Yeah, maybe some civilizations that collapsed because the Europeans gave them all fucking smallpox, ironically.

[01:32] Who knows what the Egyptians knew? Who knows what those people knew about health and about medicine? But what we know today is that there's incredible stuff that comes out of the pharmaceutical drug companies. But also they fucking lie to you. They also – they'll publish fake studies or not fake studies. But they'll publish studies that they've engineered to be successful even though they're not going to be. They'll hide data that shows that it causes side effects. They want to make money. [02:02] people that are making the medicine that's what's crazy like the people that are making the medicine are fucking geniuses it's the money people it's always the money people in everything and that's the same thing with youtube and that's the same thing with everything it's the money people and there's there's oh when you have a giant corporation you have like all kinds of stuff going on but the number one thing that's going on is everybody has to make more money every quarter and that's where it gets nutty [02:29] yeah it does and we also live in a culture that wants that like [02:33] fast food experience, right? Oh, yeah. The shortcut. And so we're so susceptible to it. [02:38] Yeah. For everything, for weight loss, to any issue you have. [02:43] We're experiencing it a little bit in the comedy community. [02:46] Because – and this is – by the way, this is like a normal thing that happens to young comedians. They want to be further than they are. Maybe they think they deserve more than they're getting. They think they deserve more shows, better spots on shows, and it does happen. And then there's also –

[03:04] There's a competitive drive involved in it. So there's a little bit of delusion, a little bit of a competitive drive. It's very similar, I would imagine, to fighters. Mm-hmm. [03:12] First of all, we should just tell everybody, Success Code, you're a mind coach. Yes, sir. You worked famously with Sean Brady. Yes. Who I love. Yeah. He's awesome. He talked about it a little bit. He's a fucking animal. Yeah. I love that guy. Woo. He's fun. He's fun. And he's got like extra muscles on his back. I don't know what the fuck that guy does, but he looks like a turtle. Those tattoos come to life. We were all talking about it the other day. We were like, he looks like a turtle. Like he's got like a shell on his back. Crazy. Just jacked muscle. Like I know what that is. [03:42] That guy will squeeze your fucking face into Jell-O. He's scary. He's so strong. And what he did to Leon Edwards was like, holy shit, man, that's a world champion. [03:52] To do it that decisively on a world champion, like he's completely turned a corner. He was always awesome. But he, post the Bilal fight, completely turned a corner. And a lot of that success he attributes to you. Yeah. It's interesting. He talked about this openly. But after the Bilal fight, that's when we started working together. And it was because, I think this happens to a lot of fighters, a lot of high achievers, is he built this identity of being unbeatable. [04:21] Right. So all this belief that was wired around. [04:24] who he was, was I am unbeatable. And so when he lost... [04:28] Everything shattered. [04:29] Hmm. And so he was broken. He didn't know how to pick up the pieces after that. It was like, how is this possible? I believe I'm unbeatable, but then I lost. And so we literally had to go into his nervous system. And it's almost like clearing out almost like we're doing surgery at an energetic level of clearing out all the bullshit around these new beliefs are starting to form like in the confusion of like I am beatable.

[04:49] When am I going to lose my next fight? And we had to clear all that and bring them back into that state of being of I'm unbeatable again. And how did you learn how to do all this? Like, what's your background? Yeah. So I was a college football player. And my freshman year in college, I rode the bench. And I was looking for solutions. I was a typical meathead. The most important things for me was getting jacked and playing football. Like, I was literally at a supplement shop looking for pro hormones. This is me at 18 years old, just fucking hypertensive, big neck. [05:19] And by the way, they used to sell some shit. Oh, basically steroids. People don't know. Basically steroids at local supplement shop. There was this stuff that I took once, the strongest shit I ever took in my life. I think it was called Mag10. Mm-hmm. Do you remember that? Do you remember that one? I remember the Mag10, but I was- It was bananas. It was full on steroids. And after I got off it, my dick was like, "What are we doing? We don't have any more testosterone left." That was me at 18. I took it for like eight weeks. It was crazy. I think I gained like 15 pounds. And I couldn't believe you could just buy it from a store. [05:49] I'm like, this can't be that good if you're just buying it. And someone told me about it. I was like, really? And they're like, yeah, you have to try this. There it is. Is that it? I don't know. It's the 2004 edition. Anabolic dominance. [06:00] I don't know if that's the stuff, but you definitely can't get that anymore, can you? They just keep banning them. What's in there? [06:07] But here's the other thing about what's in there. Says who? [06:10] Yeah, right. Says who? Who's checking it? We had a problem with my company, with Onnit. When we first started, we would send stuff out to third-party labs to get it analyzed, right? And we were finding all sorts of things in it that aren't supposed to be in there, like different vitamins, creatine, all kinds of shit that's just not supposed to be in there. Like, why is this stuff in there? This doesn't make any sense. And this is what you hear about with tainted supplements with fighters all the time. So what happens is we found out that some of these companies that mix your products for you.

[06:40] you have like some b3 k2 supplement you put them all together they're mixing them in the same bin where they're making steroids they're mixing them in the same bin where they're making creatine like they don't give a fuck if you're actually on the residue just like if you're shipping that shit overseas they're just they don't give a fuck okay they probably don't even want to be working there they're probably like held it against their will yeah like who knows what how where this factory is and so we had to upgrade our factories we had to we had to figure out where the the most ethical [07:10] Then we had a third-party test again and make sure we're on the level. But that's a real problem. So if you're buying something like that, they can tell you whatever is in there. They'll fucking throw Viagra and D-Ball and who knows what's in there. Just because it says what it is on the label, that's the wild thing about supplements, right? There's no FDA process. It's just whack-a-mole, right? They figure out that someone reports it and then they get rid of it and then whack-a-mole, the next one pops up. They're like, it's pretty much the same thing but different branding. Yeah. [07:40] Because you can get all these vitamins without having to get a prescription because we all know the efficacy of vitamins. It's legit. But in other ways, it's like I read something about Amazon, and this is crazy if it's true, is that – [07:54] I think it was like 30% of the supplements on Amazon were forgeries. [08:00] Yeah, I think I've seen people putting fake labels and stuff and making it look just like it. [08:04] Yeah. See, find out what the number is. I don't know how they even determine that number, but it's not zero. And so I stopped buying supplements. Remember, I buy fucking everything from Amazon, and I stopped buying supplements from them. I would get like pure encapsulation stuff, and I was like, I don't know. I don't know if I'm getting it from the company, so I just buy it from the company now.

[08:24] So when you buy it to know it's like pure, it's like good, good. Well, that company, Pure Encapsulations, is really good. I have no affiliations with them, but I use their stuff all the time. I think a lot of people have that question, though. Like for me, it's like – [08:35] You just see 100 brands on Amazon, and you're like, well, which one's actually legit? Because you know some of them are trash. You just got to find a company that has a great history of a bunch of people that have tested their stuff and that use their stuff. And Pure seems to be one of those companies. I'm just using that name because I use it. But there's a ton of super legit supplement companies where you know if you're going to get – [08:59] 10,000 milligrams of d3 that's exactly what it is yeah yeah they're just above board they know what the fuck they're doing like everything else man like you can get the shittiest car in the world or you can get a fucking mercedes you know they know what they're doing but you know people are listening to podcasts like this we're just kind of like listening to influencers in a way it's like oh huberman well i trust you so you have supplements you represent all right [09:20] Well, Huberman... [09:22] is honest. [09:23] And that's the most important thing. This episode is brought to you by Traeger Grills. If you enjoy food, and I mean really good food, Traeger is a game changer. This isn't just a grill. It's the ultimate way to cook outdoors, delivering unbeatable wood-fired flavor thanks to the all-natural hardwood pellets that fuel everything you grill, smoke, or bake. That's it. Just wood and fire and flavor. And what's truly wild is how easy it is. [09:53] Load the grill and let Traeger handle the rest. Grilled steaks, smoked ribs, even baked pizza, all on one grill. If you're into fire, flavor, and doing things right, check out Traeger Grills.

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[12:02] It's servicetitan.ai. That's what we do now, right? We're looking to these – it could be doctors, but these people who we put our trust in. It's like that's kind of like the bar that we're setting for like, all right, I'm going to trust you. Honestly, like that is everything, right? And including – [12:18] for yourself, like when everything falls apart, like what happened with Sean after the loss to Bilal. Like that, the thing in your head, like what it is is what it is, man. [12:28] You know, like Max Holloway says, it is what it is. He always says that it's a beautiful way to look at life. Really. It sounds simple, but it is what it is like. You're not going to change it by freaking out about it. You're not going to. This is what it is. That guy was better than you. So how do you go? What are you going to do? [12:46] How are you going to improve? What did you do mentally that was different? Was there decisions that you made during the fight? Was there something going on? And if you can't be honest with yourself... [12:56] you're not going to improve. But if you can be honest with yourself, it can make you stronger. [13:00] You know, there's a lot of guys that have gone through losses and came back way more dangerous. And there's other guys that go through losses and... [13:08] Maybe they didn't go through a process like yours, or maybe they had some self-belief issues already, and they were kind of manifesting themselves before the podcast. Maybe they were starting – or before the fight, rather. Maybe they were starting to get imposter syndrome. Some fighters get imposter syndrome. They start winning, and they're like, there's no way I can be the champion. This is crazy. And there's a governor, right? Like a governor in a car that comes up where it's like, all right, I can be successful up to this level, but anything beyond this is not safe. It's scary. Yeah. It's scary.

[13:38] real animalistic, primal part of yourself that comes out and goes, "Oh, [13:42] I couldn't even constantly tell you why, but I can't go there. I can't get to that level of success. If I do, I'm going to tear it all down. We see people do that. [13:50] Every day. Well, it's a weird fear for people that are trying to be successful because they're listening to this and like that doesn't make any sense. Like why would you – it's because the pressure of maintaining it, especially I think if you came from nothing. Because if you came from nothing that you realize how lucky you are and you realize that, oh my god, look how successful I am. I'm a world champion now. [14:12] or in whatever you do in life. And then you start thinking, what if I fuck this up? - What if I can't keep it up? - What if I can't keep it up? What if it all goes away? [14:20] Yeah. And what am I going to do? What am I going to do? What am I going to do? And you start. [14:24] Freaking out. And then if you go on social media, you start reading comments about yourself. So for fighters, that's a real problem. Yeah, there's a lot of fighters. I see arguing with people. Fuck you, pussy. I'll smack you. Don't do that. Yeah, you are wasting so much energy. You I'd rather you do heroin than do Twitter. If you're a fighter, like get off there. But what we want to do is we want to get to a place where they're matter of fact, but what they read. [14:48] which sounds like almost impossible for a lot of people who are listening right now. Like, what do you mean? This person's talking shit about me. But Brady is matter of fact about this now. Like, truthfully, he's wired in a way that where someone starts to talk some shit about him, he can laugh about it. He can just matter of factly not be emotional about it. But it's also because he's on a hot win streak right now and he looks awesome. [15:07] And he's super confident. And he's got a lot of momentum on his side. It's a compounding of the belief from the physical experience and then the belief that we've wired into him. Right. So it's both of those together, right? It's like the perfect confluence of those two factors come together. Right, right, right. And then the confidence that comes from these wins, especially the last one. I mean, God, he looks so good. He looks so dominant.

[15:37] he's really good man and for sean to do that was like wow that's a big turn of the corner not just a little turn just a giant turn of the corner [15:47] But stylistically... [15:48] That was kind of a fight made for Sean, though, don't you think? [15:51] Well, it could be until you take into consideration the second Kamaru Usman fight, because Usman couldn't take him down. That fight was primarily a stand-up fight. [16:00] because Leon's takedown defense had gotten so good. And I think there was that bump in confidence after the knockout, and he really felt like the champion now. [16:09] So for Bilal to just step in and put a stop to all that, and then... [16:13] you know... [16:14] to see then him lose the title to Jack Della and then see what Sean just did [16:22] And you look at the whole thing, you're like, what a crazy shark tank of all these killers. Leon Edwards, Bilal Muhammad, Della Maddalena. Now you've got Islam Makachev in there. And it's like, who can keep it together the most is a giant factor. It's a giant factor. I know you don't really follow football, but this is like the SEC in football, right? It's the division that has Alabama, LSU, Texas. It's like, they're all killers. So any given night, anyone could be anyone. [16:52] who's going to show up and execute the best. And that's what it comes down to. And then you got Michael Venom Page, who's like the biggest puzzle in the entire sport. [17:00] Like he's also a 170. Yeah. [17:03] That guy. [17:04] Good luck. Good luck training for that guy. Like, just good luck. Good luck. Super tall welterweight who moves like nobody, who is a world point-fighting champion. Like, that is a totally different thing, that point-fighting thing. Have you ever watched that shit? No, I haven't. Okay. Michael Venom Page was, at one point in time, the best karate point-fighters. And the way karate point-fighters fight, they stop after one person gets hit.

[17:34] elite form of tag with lethal weapons. Like these guys are fucking good at these launches forward and blitzes. And they're really good at getting out of the way because guys are blitzing at them all the time. So because of the style of the competition, they developed this very unique skill set of being able to close the distance extremely fast with a lot of a lot of distance in between them and land very unpredictable shots like he's super creative. And [18:05] He also knows how to wrestle now, and he also knows jiu-jitsu now. So now he's a mixed martial arts fighter, but he's got this one skill set that's crazy unique. And I always said that's the thing that's missing in MMA because we see what happens when you get a really elite boxer. We've seen what happens with a really elite kickboxer, a really elite jiu-jitsu guy or wrestler. We haven't seen a really elite point fighter who learns all those other skills because it's a different thing. It's not like Pereira fights. [18:35] around a lot, dude. He's coming right at you. There's not a lot of dancing, and there's not a lot of fucking... There's not a lot of... Finesse. He's just... Sanhagen moves. You know, Sanhagen is constantly giving you different looks and overloading your mind. Pereira's stalking you, right? It's very... [18:52] What MVP is doing is something totally different. Like you can't even touch him. He's hitting guys like – guys that have like a lot of experience in the UFC. He's hitting them with shots they don't see coming. They can't hit them.

[19:05] Kevin Holland was like, where the fuck is he? I can't even find him. This is nuts. The guy just launches himself out. He pops, he cracks you, and then he's gone, and you're like, okay. He's moving way faster than anybody you've ever fought before and covers way more distance quicker than anybody you've ever fought before. It's like the difference between someone who – [19:25] is like standing in front of people and knocking sticks and an elite fencer. You know, you ever see those elite fencers? They dive forward. They dive forward and crack you. This guy can do that with like knockout shots. [19:37] That's wild. Because this is him when he was an elite karate fighter. So this is point fighting. This is what it looks like. It's really weird because the judges make decisions after each contact. [19:48] This is Raymond Daniels, who's also – he was an elite – [19:53] point fighter who then went on and had big success in glory and also big success in bellator because of that style it's like a nutty style [20:02] He pulled off one of the greatest – Raymond Daniels pulled off one of the greatest KOs I've ever seen in my life in kickboxing. It was a jumping sidekick that in midair he turned into a spinning back kick to the face. Pshh. [20:16] It's – I've – [20:16] I've done it to a bag before. I've never done it to a human being. And for him to do it to a human being in glory. Now, see if you find the kickboxing one. It's from glory. This is the nutty one where he did like a 360-degree punch. Watch how crazy this is. Play that because that's what that was. [20:34] what you just had. [20:35] Watch this punch.

[20:36] So he hits him with this spinning back kick to the body. He lets him get up. Now watch this. [20:41] what is that that is bananas he ballet punched that it's like anime it's like dragon ball z stuff right there if that was in the kick like mortal combat you'd be like get out of here bitch that shit would never work but i want you to find his his uh kickboxing ko i wish i could remember the gentleman he was fighting but the guy who fought is legit too and he hit him with a jump side kick spinning back kick to the face in the air so it's like that is a different thing you know [21:11] going to do that. Pereira's not going to do that. [21:15] Those point fighter guys are different. It's a different thing. You're dealing with this whole new skill set. [21:22] This episode is brought to you by the Montana Knife Company. I'm very excited to do this ad because my good friend Josh Smith owns the Montana Knife Company. It was founded by Josh, who is one of the most experienced master bladesmiths in the world. He makes amazing knives. I fucking love them. I have a bunch of them. There are barely over 100 master bladesmiths in the world. And this guy has been one since he was 19. [21:52] ever use right here in the U.S. of A. Designed, tested, and built by hunters, Montana Knife Company is a hunting knife company first and foremost, but they also make some of the best chef knives on the planet. I use them all the time in my kitchen. And the best part is all of Montana Knife Company's knives are backed by a multi-generational guarantee promise. If you ever need your blade

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[24:05] It's pretty powerful. [24:07] So that style can be figured out. MVP lost in – he fought Douglas Lima and Bellator and got stopped in that fight because Douglas was a beast at the time and KO'd him. [24:19] But – [24:20] It's just like that is a different puzzle, man. [24:23] Yeah. [24:24] It's a different puzzle. It's crazy. I just love the fact that there's guys like that now in this sport where you're looking at this sport that's like 30-plus years old now. And there's still guys that are complete innovators that are coming in when the whole thing's changing. You're like, whoa, okay. Okay. [24:39] All right, now we're doing that. Now we're doing front kicks to the face, you know? It's an evolution. Now we're doing calf kicks all of a sudden. [24:46] Bisping went his entire career without getting calf kicked. [24:50] I mean, that's nuts. Yeah. When you think about that. That's crazy. That's crazy. He's a world champion. Went through his entire career. No one calf kicked him. [24:58] That's how weird this sport is. [25:00] But I think – [25:01] What separates the guys is not just technique. It's not just being a specialist in one very particular area, which is obviously a huge factor, but also the mind. [25:13] And a lot of guys don't want to get help in that because they think that if they consult a sports psychologist, they're a pussy. Yeah, 100%. Being vulnerable makes me weak. Yeah. Right? That's a core belief for a lot of guys. And so when you believe that to be true… [25:30] You're not going to create weakness within yourself, so you're not going to seek it out. Exactly. And there's also a big stigma around like...

[25:37] guys in profession like anything right yeah there's like a range to comedians right there's a range people do what I do there's [25:44] There's kind of pussies who do it in a way, right? There's like people who are very like soft. Be in touch with your feelings. Yeah, yeah. Like the too far to like the woo-woo or too far to like, hey, I'm going to follow this textbook. Where really this work is, it's art at the end of the day, what we're doing. It's like, it's something you feel your way through and it requires years and years of practice to get to any level of mastery. That's interesting. You're talking about like... [26:08] managing your brain as art. [26:10] Yeah. Well, because it's not just the brain. It's the nervous system. It's the whole body. It's the energy body system, right? So we're talking about... You've heard of meridians, right? They run through the body. Is that all real? The chakras. I hear about that. But those are things that I hear about and I go, eh. I'll wait to talk to somebody about it that's a scientist. You could call it whatever you want, right? We all feel like a [26:28] Everyone feels anxiety right here, like in their solar plexus. Yeah, you kind of feel it in the center of your body, right? Right. [26:34] Boom. Right here. You're like, oh. This is the patterns I see with all these elite guys I'm working with. It's like I can just... [26:40] my awareness [26:41] with them is I can just feel the same thing they can feel. Don't you think that's probably constricted breathing though? Like constricted breathing, that's what you'd feel it. You'd feel it. I would say constricted breathing is a byproduct of like, [26:53] a blockage in their body and they just feel it. Don't you think it's adrenaline though? It's a giant adrenaline dump and it's also there's an anxiety that comes with that if your mind starts spinning out of control. Yeah. [27:03] Like, do you train? Yeah. [27:04] I used to train boxing, yeah. Have you ever done jiu-jitsu? I haven't done jiu-jitsu. One of the things that happens in jiu-jitsu when guys first get started, like say if a guy has like maybe a distorted idea of how tough he is and he's like a big, strong, muscular guy, those in particular, for whatever reason –

[27:22] seem to have a real problem when they grapple with a really good guy where they get pinned down and then they get like side controlled and mounted and they start hyperventilating. I've seen it like several times. [27:34] from people that have never trained before but the real buff and they maybe have this idea of who they are and that idea is getting shattered. Yeah. Like just shattered by a guy that doesn't even look impressive. You know, but he's just manhandling you. And the hyperventilating thing to me seems like a bunch of stuff. It's like the battle with reality. This can't be happening. Oh my God, this is happening. There's the forgetting to breathe. There's the elevated heart rate. There's the dump of adrenaline. There's all these different things connected. This is like a [28:03] uh a domino effect right right like the constricted breathing yeah not being able to think clearly it's all a domino effect yeah kind of how operate is like the belief is the thing that starts a domino right sure and so if your belief is being destroyed that moment that's what creates that domino effect of the body and the nervous system reacting the way it does right and so belief is formed in one of two ways one is just it's formed through life experience right like the goggins of [28:33] builds belief off of doing it. Yeah. How many guys are like that? By the way, shout out to my brother, David Goggins, who just completed the Bigfoot 200. Let's go, Goggins. That dude has no knees, ladies and gentlemen. He's got no knees, and he just ran 200 miles through the fucking mountains. What did he do it in, like, 60 hours?

[28:52] It was posted today. [28:54] Double second. [28:55] Thank you. [28:56] Find out what his time was. This dude has no knees. Like, I don't run. My knee's pretty good. In comparison. I think that's an example of how belief can actually break reality of what's supposed to be possible, right? Well, it's certainly broken in the eyes of his doctor. His doctor, when they first saw his knees, because he didn't go in for... [29:14] anything for a long time. When the doctor first saw his knees, he was like, I can't believe you can walk on these legs. Forget about run thousands of miles. Like this is nuts. He was not just bone on bone. His bone was distorting. So because it was rubbing bone on bone, it was like forming these little mushroom curves at the end of it. It's like it's a type of there's a name for it, like that distortion. It's called wolf something or another. He said it's like theoretical, [29:44] So, like, all right, if that exists, like, that could work, but it shouldn't. Like, we've never seen it. Maybe that doctor said it. I should be real clear on that because this is, I'm hearing it from David Goggins, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, sure. And I'm like, what the fuck? Like, he's telling me that. They told me it could never happen before. But regardless, he's breaking... [29:59] what reality is supposed to be in a way, right? When you compare it to a very large sample size. He is, David Goggins is [30:07] As much as you would say, this is crazy, he's ruining his body, like he doesn't have to do this, that's great. [30:13] But what he's doing is he's carrying a torch for – [30:18] the human will in a way that very few people have ever done it because he's doing it publicly. He's doing it publicly and that's why I think it's so important and I talk about it all the time.

[30:28] about how nuts it is this guy has no fucking knees and he's operating this way [30:33] So what does it say? I was trying to find total... [30:35] I don't know how they track it, but he was moving... [30:38] For a total time of two days, one hour, and seven minutes. Oh, so he did it in two days? I thought I saw online. That's a free total. [30:44] It took three days total? It's the 20 hours of stop time. That's like your rest time. Oh, right. I don't know where they were at the overall. 200 miles. It says it listed here, which would be the racetracking. [30:54] It says when he started and when he finished, right? It says he's finished. [30:58] It doesn't say what time. Yeah, I don't know when they say it. Oh, is this all off the website, or is this – [31:02] Track leaders. Yeah. What place did he come in? 93rd. [31:06] He's also 50. I mean, he's a freak, dude. But he's, like, carrying this torch. You might not want to do what he's doing. I wouldn't do what he's doing. But I'm saying it's kind of crazy that this guy can, at 50 years old, can have these endurance workouts with – [31:21] world-class MMA fighters like Israel Adesanya, and he's got... [31:25] is he throwing up in a bucket and he's not even breathing heavy and he does like multiple of those workouts a day in silence he doesn't listen to music no one is telling him to do it he's got no coach yeah like he's out there man he's out there he's just built it through pure willpower yes i would say [31:48] Most people, almost everyone else in the world, they don't have the ability to build that level of belief through their willpower. I don't know if they don't have the ability, but they don't do it. He's 23rd to finish. But if they don't do it. Oh, he was 23rd? His bib was 93. Oh, no shit. That's amazing.

[32:04] 23rd place, 50 years old, no knees. [32:11] crazy what a monster what a monster imagine that guy was after you like what a monster [32:17] It's just – it's beautiful. [32:19] It's like a beautiful expression of will because that's all it is. It's just the will to go on. [32:25] And the discipline to continue to train like that every day and then every time you test your will, you push it further. He's like, I'm in the lab every day. Like he's literally learning more about himself while he's doing this. So why do you think – [32:40] millions of people read his book and then such a small percentage of people can kind of replicate [32:45] that example he's setting. I don't think you want to replicate it. Not to his degree, but to any degree, right? I think it definitely moves what your waterline is. [32:56] Right. It moves what you expect of yourself, moves that up a few notches because, you know, a guy like that's out there. If you didn't think a guy like that's out there and you worked out the Y three days a week and no one else did, you'd probably be impressed with yourself. You know, I'm about that fucking Y three days a week using the Nautilus machine. It's on who you're comparing yourself to. And, you know, obviously I can't compare to David Goggins. But when I when I know that a guy like that is out there in the world, it raises my own personal standard up a notch. [33:23] I'm never going to hit what he does. I don't have the time. He's working out four or five hours every day. It's crazy. I don't have that commitment either. It's not what I'm interested in.

[33:35] But – [33:36] Him doing that has raised mine. When I look at Jocko's Instagram and every day it says 430 on his Timex, he shows his – he's got one of those – what is that watch called? [33:47] What's that watch that he has that everybody wears? [33:50] The digital Timex watch. It's a famous classic. [33:54] Iron Man? [33:55] That's it, right? [33:57] is the Iron Man. [33:58] Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, this fucking bulletproof watch. Of course, that's what he wears. Like, 4.09 a.m. That's when he gets up to work out. Yeah. Every day. [34:06] But guys like that, guys like you, you guys are dogs, right? You want it. You get inspired by that. Some people, they just feel... [34:12] deflated when they see that level. They're just like, oh. No, man. You've got to embrace it. It is deflating because you're so far from the finish line. [34:23] It's deflating. [34:25] But that's why there are fundamental ways to actually build belief within yourself. Like there's steps to do it. [34:32] And that's what really I want to drive home for anyone who's listening to this is that you can build belief and it's not just – [34:38] banging your head against the wall. [34:41] I believe you. I'm sure there's systems to it. That's why I really wanted to talk to you. But the whole idea of the meridians, how does that factor into it with you? What do you hang on this idea of meridians in the body? Yeah. So I'll talk about how I came to know them. I was playing football and walked into the supplement shop looking for my next pro hormone. Oh, that's right. I interrupted you right there. Oh, good, bro. We came back circle. We came back here like we needed to.

[35:10] 230 pound, 5'3 dude in there. [35:14] just jacked and I'm like hey what pro homos do you have? And he looks at me and he's like, you know, he's very like zen type of dude and he's like, [35:22] "Why do you want it?" And I was like, "I'm trying to get on the football field. What else could I do? I'm a meathead. I need to get stronger. It's the only thing I can do." And then he's like, [35:31] Say, how do you feel? Like, how do I feel like this is me? 18 years old, atheist, don't believe in anything, biggest skeptic you're ever going to meet in your life. And he's like, I want you to try this exercise. [35:41] And he has me just look off into the peripheries of my eyes. How long have you known this guy by then? [35:47] meeting him and he just starts going in on me. Yeah. Yeah. [35:51] You think he was trying to have sex with you or anything? [35:53] Well, we can get into that. It's just an odd thing to go into Meridians. How do you feel? Like, whoa, trying to get jacked. Yeah, well, he's just that type of dude. So I call him like a sensei now because I've known him for... Oh, you know him still. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. So I'm still... So he's just a weird guy. He's a weird guy. Super weird guy. A lot of guys would have their hackles up though. Like, what? How do I feel? 100%. Oh, no. First I was like, fuck off me. You know, look at the creatine, bro. Get the fuck off me. You know what I mean? Like the... [36:19] What the fuck? Insecure male energy, posturing up. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm trying to fuck me. No, he just made everything feel approachable to 18-year-old meathead. So he started teaching these breathing techniques, like for meditation. And he worked at a supplement store? He was working there at a time. He was studying for his neuroscience degree at a college to get his master's. [36:39] fortuitous coincidence yes to run into a dude like that we're trying to get jacked that's life right right it is kind of right like think about it you're looking for like the full meathead path and you run into a guy's like how do you feel like what fucker i don't feel nothing bro i didn't though

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[38:27] Nobody was talking about their emotions. Yeah. And so he just started teaching me breathing techniques. [38:32] He taught me up at the meridians, very simple ones that he's like, okay, visualize breathing energy. And this is martial arts stuff, right? So much has to do with breathing. So he was into martial arts as well. Like, all right, I want you to imagine breathing up your governing meridian and your central meridian, which is like right on your spinal cord and up the center line of your body. He's like, all right, breathe in deeply here. [38:52] How do you feel? I was like, oh, I just feel more confident. I feel stronger. So he started just teaching me how to do simple stuff like that and then bring it on to like the football field. I was a D lineman. And so I needed to knock people over. [39:02] arts, right? I needed to feel grounded. [39:05] So I need to connect to my root chakra, which is, you can call it whatever you want, I don't care. But it's like the root part of your body, the primal, you know, ball sack area down there, the gooch, that. If you can start to breathe into that area of your body, you will feel more grounded. And you can actually become more grounded. So I started using these techniques just to play football. And by doing so, I was like, I don't really care about studying the system super in depth, but I was just taking the tools that were useful to me, like literally use these and [39:32] use them to get stronger, like to bench press more. It was just breathing techniques along with visualization and they're just following this ancient [39:40] Eastern medicine. How did breathing techniques help your bench? [39:44] So there's some breathing techniques I'm sure you do in martial arts, right? You put your tongue behind your teeth and you can start to breathe in deeply. [39:52] And if you start to visualize, bring an energy down through the crown of your head and then meeting it kind of like in the...

[39:58] just below your belly button there, you can just start to build more energy, more power. You're just focusing energy. That's all you're doing. And then if you visualize yourself lifting the weight, you're going to lift it heavier. And so how much heavier? [40:10] There's a bunch of research. You could look up... [40:13] tons of different strength-based tasks studies that show that visualization increases strength. Like for example... So that's just kind of a kind of visualization you think? Yeah. That breathing exercise? I was just stacking what was known as like basic PETLEP imagery, P-E-T-T-L-E-P imagery, along with these breathing techniques and visualizing a specific way. Oh, I thought that when they say visualization helps performance, I thought it was like long term. Yeah. [40:40] I didn't think it was like right before they did a thing. [40:43] I thought – [40:44] I think it's both. It's like part of training. I think, okay, so there's two types, right? So there's like, for example, there's literally a study you could look up. [40:51] And it's like a bicep curl. They did this study, there's four different groups. The first group just didn't do anything. Second group just did bicep physical curl. The third group did bicep, [41:02] curl plus visualization of doing curls. The fourth group did just visualization. The group that did... [41:09] just the bicep curl and the group that did just the visualization performed the same. They had the same increase in strength, and the group that performed the best was the one that did the visualization plus the bicep curl. [41:19] the bicep curl. - Interesting. - And so there's a bunch of studies like that, that just show how when you just stack these different tools together, they can be beneficial. Yes, in the short term, for like a fighter, for example, like this is what I'm training my guys, when we go into fight camp,

[41:32] Every single time we're just training the subconscious to be comfortable being in the setting and just training the subconscious mind. Right. We're just wiring, just digging in those grooves of like, this is what's going to feel like this is going to be the experience and just wiring it in a way of having success. And then what I do is I notice I'm like. [41:51] How do you feel? How do you feel? How do you feel as we go along here? It's like, oh, there's doubt that's coming up. Boom. Let's go in there. [41:57] Let's get rid of that. And it's not an intellectual thing to remove doubt. It's a feeling thing in the body. And honestly, I don't care what we call it. We call it in the chakra. We call it just feeling in the body. You can say, all right, I feel... [42:08] doubt coming up right now at this point of fight. Why? Well, [42:12] I have this memory that's created scar tissue within my nervous system right now because this has happened for that. I believe if I try to do this. [42:19] then something bad is going to happen and I'm going to lose a fight. So we need to actually accept that. Zen proverb, what I can't accept won't change. So you use these breathing techniques to accept your way through it. The body kind of relaxes through it. [42:31] And then we let it go. [42:33] And then we choose the opposite belief, and that's the alchemy of the process. Do you know how many people were involved in the study that showed that the visualization right before the performance was better? Jamie, did you find it? This is a different one. This is about hypnosis. Different ones? [42:45] Hip flexors. Interesting. There's a bunch of them out there, though. Study whether mental training alone can produce a gain in muscular strength. 30 male university athletes, including football, basketball, and rugby players, were randomly assigned to perform mental training of their hip flexor muscles, to use weight machines to physically exercise their hip flexors, or to form a control group which received neither mental nor physical training. The hip strength of each group was measured before and after training.

[43:15] Thank you. [43:17] Strength was also increased through physical training by 28 percent, but did not change significantly in the control condition. Whatever that means. That just means that people didn't do anything. They didn't visualize and they didn't do the control group. Yeah. Okay. I get it. I thought they were saying a different thing. [43:47] the results support, the related findings of whoever that is. [43:50] that giant name. Interesting. Very interesting. So it definitely has an effect. And, um, [43:57] And it seems like it definitely has a positive effect right before you're performing any kind of athletics. Yeah. And I think these studies are over like at least a six week period of time. So if you want to see like strength. [44:08] base tasks improve over time, like, they're incrementally getting stronger, right? It's not just then. They're kind of maintaining that strength, I imagine, as long as they continue to do the visualization. Yeah, I wonder... [44:20] You know, that's the thing is like most people that go to the gym, like most people who are listening to this have regular jobs. If they go to the gym, they don't. [44:27] go visualize. Yeah, this is peak performance stuff we're talking about. Yeah. This is pro athletes. It's elite. [44:33] If you're trying to get better, like what way to – you want to get better. [44:38] This is good for you, too. Yeah. I know it sucks. You don't want to visualize your kettlebell routines and visualize your muscles growing afterwards, but it might be worth a go. I'd like to hear from some people that try it. Because if that kind of results, that's pretty nutty.

[44:53] Like I'm saying, like I did this stuff and then I actually abandoned my football career because I liked it so much. And I went on and did research. I got a research grant just to look at the effect of using some of these techniques online. [45:03] on bench pressing performance and also decreasing anxiety. Because for me, I realized when I was 18, 19, I had crazy anxiety. [45:10] I was like, all right. [45:11] This stuff is helping. [45:12] Call it meditation, hypnosis, whatever you mean. If you can progressively relax yourself, sitting in a float tank, if you can just do that. [45:20] If you can progressively relax yourself, your anxiety is going to go down, your cortisol levels are going to go down, the whole body is going to thrive. And this is actually like connected to so much that has to do with our health, kind of come a full circle is I see so much. [45:32] I'll have professional athletes come to me with these injuries, the physical therapists working on it, working on it, working on it. [45:38] Nothing's happening. It's just a nagging injury. [45:40] every single time, if I can relax them enough and I can get to the root emotional core, [45:45] of whatever's creating... [45:47] this pain for them and it's usually emotional it's actually like a memory or some kind of mental block like the governor is coming in. Right. I'll see some guys in like the lower minor leagues. He's trying to go up to the major leagues and it's like these things will just start to express themselves when they're just about to get to that next level. And if we can move through the emotional side of it. [46:07] the pain disappears. [46:09] Right, but not in all injuries, right? Like there's got to be like legitimate injuries where guys blow their meniscus out. Guys have broken shin bones that have to be reconstructed. Stuff that can't be explained. Like a lot of times, right, you go to the doctor, like I don't know what your issue is.

[46:24] That happens all the time. Okay, well that's a different thing. I mean the realities of physical injuries that guys get from combat sports training are real. Sure, sure. Like if you have bulging discs in your neck and your arm goes numb. [46:35] That's a real problem. Yeah. You know, it's not just an emotional thing. [46:39] I'm speaking about things that are like nagging and you're doing the physical therapy and it's not working. Right. Okay. If that's you, then that's the path. So, yeah, we got to be specific, right? So you're talking about like weird stuff that does come up where they're almost like psychosomatic injuries because guys are responding badly to the pressure. [46:56] And not even just the pressure, it could just be... [47:01] It could be an injury that existed before, but it's just not healing. For whatever reason, it's not healing, and it's just kind of... [47:07] recurring if you can get to the emotional root who keeps that i have fun with this now i always look up whenever someone tells me their injury i just look at chat gpt what is the spiritual emotional connection to this injury [47:17] And it's usually right on point. I'll be like, what do you think about this? They're like, oh. [47:22] Yeah, that's spiritual, emotional connection, but not to like legit injuries like a broken hand. [47:27] Yeah, I mean, yeah, for sure. Like someone breaks their hand, they got to get screws and plates in there. [47:34] Sure. Yeah. That's not – you can't look that up on ChatGPT. Yeah, yeah. He broke his fucking hand. It hurts. I'll give you an example. Like I have so many of these, right? It might be like someone has like – [47:43] hamstring that's just nagging right a lot of athletes like I pop my hamstring it just won't feel normal again all right [47:50] I look that type of stuff up it's like alright well [47:53] Why isn't this going away?

[47:54] I work with pitchers in Major League Baseball. It's like my hip. It's like, well, why is this coming up now? And usually there's always some kind of ruin, and if we can get to it, we can relieve it. I bet there's a lot of guys, too, that have, if you think about making a living with your body. [48:09] You make a living in a sport with your body where you're putting your body through explosive movements that could blow joints out. So there's always this anxiety that all could go away. Yes. One twist of the ankle, one blowout. I mean, look, people all the time lose their careers in football and in martial arts because they blow a knee out or they blow their back apart. There's only like 10 core beliefs that create fear in athletes I've seen. Like there's not that many. And one of them is the one you're pointing out right now is like. [48:39] Will I be able to sustain it? You know the core is like will I be able to sustain this or will I be able to continue to do the thing that I love? Right and of course like yeah if you get injured you [48:47] then you're going to lose it all. [48:48] Did you ever talk to Weidman after he broke his leg? I did. [48:52] Did you? I did, yeah. Does he openly talk about that? Are we allowed to talk about this? [48:56] Yeah, I mean, he gave me a testimonial, so I think he's pretty open. You gave him, like, online so he could talk about it? Yeah, he put, like, a video testimony. He's one of the toughest guys that's ever fought in the UFC. He's an animal. And that guy in his prime was fucking terrifying. Yeah. [49:11] But that injury that he got is one of the absolute hardest injuries to recover from. [49:18] that broken leg when they break their shin – [49:21] in half like that very few people ever come back yeah

[49:25] I mean, there's one guy, I believe, that's a heavyweight in Bellator. It happened to him, and he's fighting again and fighting well. Yeah. [49:32] I don't know his name. See if you can find his name. But Anderson was never the same after his. Tyrone Spong was never the same after his. Weidman was never the same after his. [49:43] And psychologically, it's got to be fucking crazy to think that you threw a super powerful kick that broke your own leg in half. [49:52] And now you're expected... [49:53] You went through a year and a half of hell to try to just get to the point where you can hit paths again. [49:59] And now you're going to go risk it again. Might kick someone's knee again and break your shin again and do that again. And then you can't walk again. [50:07] What we're talking about is like that. [50:09] just so we have physical scar tissue, it's that emotional scar tissue, you know, it's just like, [50:13] It's hard for those thoughts not to come back into your head of like, I need to be extra careful here. Well, they're reasonable thoughts. Yeah, of course. You know, if you think about it. But it's like. [50:22] Chris had that style. Well, I mean, that the kick that he threw in Uriah Hall was full blast. I mean, he fucking ripped that kick. And then when I heard that snap, I've heard that snap a couple of times. And it is the most horrible sound, man. The sound of a bone breaking, like a person's bone breaking. It's like, oh, fuck. It gets you like. [50:45] in every cell in your body like god damn that's awful i've seen it a bunch i've seen it at least [50:54] Half a dozen times I've seen people get a bone broken.

[50:59] Yeah, it's traumatizing. Yeah. To come back from that is very hard because we're talking about the anxiety of always worrying about getting injured. And then you get injured from maybe a kick you through or Tim Sylvia, Frank Mir, Frank Mir broke his arm. [51:12] Or Frank Mir Minotauro, his spiral fracture from that Kimura. Like, fuck. [51:19] Coming back from something like that is really hard. [51:22] But what do you do for a fighter when you're trying to rebuild them? Do you take – [51:28] each fighter as a unique project and you just want to know everything about them and, you know, what, what bothers them about themselves, what bothers them about their discipline. So how do you do it? [51:41] I'm going to explain what I do. It's going to sound woo-woo, but I also want to contextualize it with the fact that, like, I didn't believe in anything. Like, it's just my experience of, like, doing this stuff for 17 years now and just seeing... [51:52] and feeling my way into this art that now I speak about things that the old me 15 years ago, 20 years ago would be like, shut the fuck up. [52:00] Right? But so what I do with any of my clients is I bring them to a very relaxed state. You know, like think of custody of the motto. What do you do with Mike Tyson? Like, that's what I'm doing with these guys. Right? So I'm bringing them almost into a hypnotic state. [52:13] And I'm bringing them down into this place where they finally let go. They're no longer trying to keep me out, defend, keep up this identity they want to project into the world. So they can actually get to the insecurities. [52:26] I don't touch any of the beliefs that are working for them. If someone has positive beliefs or successful, I don't touch any of that stuff. All I'm trying to find is their insecurity, their fear, their anxiety, their doubt. And so I'm just digging deeper and deeper into their body until we start to like,

[52:42] think about things they want to achieve. It's like, ooh, what was twitchy there? [52:45] Right? Something twitches in him. It's like... [52:48] I'm feeling like I'm getting angry now. Why are you getting angry? Why do we get angry? It's because we're afraid. [52:52] and we're trying to defend ourselves. And so if I find something like that, I feel into it with them. And then I ask them, I'm like, [52:59] What do you believe in being true that make you feel this way right now? [53:03] And if I sit there long and I hold him in that tension, it'll eventually come up. [53:07] And through that, [53:08] we can release that belief, we can accept our way through it first, [53:11] we can release it and we can, [53:13] How are you setting this up? Is this actual hypnosis? Are you doing like hypnotic techniques? Yeah. Yeah. And how did you learn how to do that? [53:21] This episode is brought to you by the farmer's dog. Here's a fun fact. Research shows that dogs who maintain a healthy weight can live up to two and a half years longer on average than dogs who are overweight. Isn't that wild and also kind of obvious at the same time? So why is feeding vague scoops of ultra processed kibble still the status quo for most dog owners? Healthy alternatives exist. And trust me, I know. [53:47] I buy one, the Farmer's Dog. I use it for both my dogs. They love it. They eat it up quick. It smells good to them. It smells good to me. It's human-grade food. The Farmer's Dog makes fresh food for dogs, and my dogs love it. Their recipes are made with real meat and fresh vegetables that are gently cooked to retain vital nutrients. They also portion out the meals to your dog's nutritional needs, which helps avoid overfeeding and makes weight management easier and isn't getting more time with our four-legged

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[55:50] Same guy, Sensei. [55:51] Sensei, does he have a cult? Does he have a cult that we could join? A one of one. [55:58] So this guy taught you hypnosis techniques as well? Yeah, yeah. He taught me a lot of different things. Hypnosis, NLP, timeline therapy. And then I didn't go on and get a secondary degree. So I studied, I created my own degree. I went to a liberal arts school in L.A. [56:12] the mental aspect of human performance, but everything I was learning that was helping me and my teammates, I was learning outside of school. So I was like, I'm not gonna go get spend $200,000 in getting a second degree when I'm learning everything else outside of school. So I've just continued to [56:27] go to workshops, learn, study with different people who know how to do different techniques. And that's how I learned very kinesthetically. In the same way that if you're doing martial arts, you're just trying to go to as many mass you can. This guy, jujitsu, this guy, kickboxing. That's just what I've done. I've gone and tried to find different people who are really good at what they do. And that's how I learned through doing and actually experiencing the work of myself first. If it works for me. [56:49] I try to my clients, it works for them, I just keep it going. And I just, I don't have one technique, I use [56:55] Many different techniques, whatever the moment calls for that's what I use are there even? Degrees that you could get in human performance that would sort of match the kind of studying that you're doing no is there anything? Like if you went to a major university, do they consider? Human mental performance and human performance whether it's in athletics or chess or anything like that where you have to really think through things and deal with pressure do they consider that and I?

[57:21] a discipline? Is that something that they study? I think sports psychology. I think you can get a That sounds very rudimentary. It is. Like sports psychology versus human performance. It is. When you think about this conversation that you and I are having, one of the things that we're talking about is... [57:37] how important it is to have... [57:41] A mindset that allows you to work your way through difficulties and become successful at a thing and just get out of your own way. Everybody wants to do that. So if that's a real thing. [57:54] Why wouldn't that be taught? [57:56] in every major university. They won't let you smoke the toe to school. That's why. But they don't have to specifically advocate for it. [58:06] But... [58:07] The kids are going to do it anyway. But what's important is that they should recognize that this is a thing. [58:13] Yeah. Like if it's a thing, if we all agree and I bet any competitive athlete in any sport has experienced anxiety. You've had days where you felt amazing and you performed amazing. And then you've had days where you doubted yourself and you fucked up and you dropped the ball or whatever you did. There's there's this weird battle that goes on in the head and it's all. [58:34] It has a giant result whatever's going on your head and how you perform. Yes, and you always talk about Where do ideas come from right like where do they magically come from? I don't know where they come from exactly, but I know how they're getting filtered and [58:48] And it's just through the beliefs because our belief system deletes, distorts, and generalizes information. And the fact that nobody, not nobody, but many people don't understand how that filtration system works just limits so many of us from achieving what we want because we're literally like,

[59:03] You all know like the girl who's like dated an asshole and she's like all men are assholes, right? [59:07] She's deleting the story and generalizing her best friend who's married to an incredible guy, right? But when you believe something, you literally shape the world to make it match it. [59:17] right [59:18] Yeah, yeah. [59:19] You kind of do. Yeah. And if you believe bad things, bad things will happen to you. No, 100 percent. There's millions of pieces of information that you can see, smell, taste or touch in any moment. There's so much sensory information. We can only pick up on a few in our conscious mind in any moment. So that's where the ideas come from. I also think it's interactive more than we like to admit. [59:38] Tell me about that. I don't think you can manifest your own reality. [59:44] But... [59:45] I think you have a part in the process and the thinking part about and the visual, not necessarily visualizing, but staying on a path. Yes. Yes. [59:56] There's an element that's going on there that's affecting reality itself. [1:00:02] There's a weird exchange of energy between human beings and between reality itself that I don't think we've figured out how to measure. [1:00:11] I don't think it's as simple as life is a series of events and it all takes place randomly and good luck to you. Come on. The synchronicities are undeniable. Yeah. There's some stuff that's weird. There's some stuff that's weird that makes me think without going full woo-woo, maybe we just don't have a grasp of the full spectrum of all the things that are happening, of all the factors at play. And how many of them have to deal with – we would air quote energy. Yes.

[1:00:41] the woo-woo comes in here's how i appeal to my rational mind to make this make sense right [1:00:45] So, [1:00:46] I think about beliefs are like the code of our mind that's constantly filtering in the information. All this code does is determine how I'm going to feel. [1:00:55] And that feeling is either going to make me want to go towards something or pull away from it. Yeah. So I just want my beliefs to push me or pull me towards the things that I want because it's going to lead to me behaving in a way that gets to an outcome. [1:01:08] As simple as that. [1:01:10] Well, that's logical. But everybody's starting from a different place, right? [1:01:15] So there's some people that are starting from a devastating place of a lack of self-belief. Yes. And for those, it's just going to be a longer… [1:01:23] journey to get to some sort of positive [1:01:27] outcome, but... [1:01:28] A lot of people just don't know how to begin the first steps. Like they want to. Like if you have like no confidence, you feel like shit, you feel like every day is garbage. Everywhere you go, you think, oh my God, everyone's going to hate me. There's a lot of people that walk through life like that. You want the first step? What's the first step? It's awareness. Awareness. Yeah. Yeah. [1:01:45] Set an alarm on your phone every three hours just to ask yourself, how do you feel? [1:01:49] But you feel like shit every hour on the hour. Like I feel like you got to sit in that. Right. Because most people like cut themselves off at like the head and they just stay in the thoughts, the negative thoughts. But they don't actually go into the feeling. So that's step one. [1:02:00] Okay. Just to sit in the shit pit of full awareness of all the feelings. Then from there... [1:02:07] Set an alarm for the next week that go, okay, feel what's coming up and then ask yourself, what were you focused on?

[1:02:13] Then you can start to take some kind of ownership over like, where are those thoughts coming from? Right. How is my focus creating the way that I feel, right? [1:02:20] And you can start to see your beliefs by connecting those dots of like, all right, [1:02:25] "Why is that making me feel angry?" So you have to feel first and then notice what you're focusing on. [1:02:31] And then you start to come into this feeling of, all right, well, I'm seeing it, right? It's the four stages of learning. You're getting to this place of... [1:02:38] conscious incompetence. I see that I make myself feel bad. I don't know how I'm doing it. And then you can go, okay, [1:02:43] What if I started to flip the focus? [1:02:46] And I started to build that muscle. Because this is the way I think about the mind and all of these things. Is it's a muscle, just like the body. You can start to train it. Your mind just picks up on these patterns of repetition. Just like... [1:02:56] Striking a bag just like anything else if you do something over and over again, right? You say the same things yourself over and over again The repetition starts to make its way down to the subconscious level well, Huberman talked about that that area of the brain that actually grows Larger when you do things you don't want to do and you build discipline so it really is a muscle so you don't want to focus on the thing that is good for you because it feels like oh yucky it's like oh [1:03:20] I'm lying to myself. But that's the exercise. Just flip it. Just continue to flip it. But for some people, they don't know how to get started with these thoughts. Like – [1:03:29] without hiring a coach. [1:03:32] I mean, do you have it laid out? Yeah, yeah. What someone should do from the start? The second half of the book is a literally playbook. Just do everything in the second half of the book. It's a playbook. What I'm getting to this is, though, like...

[1:03:42] You know, you deal with a guy like Sean Brady, he's already tough as fuck. He's already, you know, elite MMA fighter. He has this loss, but he's already a beast of a human being. When you're dealing with people that don't have any athletic background and, you know, maybe they just have a job and they just have no fucking confidence when they're sick of it. They're sick of like living life in this anxiety pit of despair and they want to find a way out. There's got to be like multiple different things that have to happen. Right. So it's not just the way you think. [1:04:11] But there's also, like, actions. [1:04:13] And I think this is an action, right? [1:04:16] Step into awareness. Yes. Feel it. [1:04:19] the next set of actions the next week, [1:04:21] Step into awareness of what you're feeling and what are you focusing on that makes you feel the way. That's another set of actions. But do you feel like this is all possible for someone to achieve without some kind of physical exercise in coordination with it? [1:04:35] Um, what kind of exercise are you talking about? It feels, it seems to me that people with depression in particular, like one of the best cures for depression is regular exercise, any kind of exercise, whether it's, you know, fucking go jog around the lake, whatever, whatever you want to do. Well, listen, even before any of this is low hanging fruits. Like in the book, I take it, I have people do an intake of their life. [1:04:55] And I have them also kind of just look at all the low hanging fruit of like if you're drinking vodka bottles at 7 a.m. in the morning. [1:05:03] Like that's a low-hanging fruit. You need to start to find a way through. Drink one instead of three, right? There's all these like small steps you have to take. Drink one bottle instead of three? Is that what you're saying? You know the tiny bottles. Come on. Oh. You know what I'm saying? If you're drinking vodka in the morning, like you've got bigger problems. Bro, I've had clients who are like, you know, high-level executives that are so stressed that they drink first thing in the morning. I've had – and I've helped them get off it completely.

[1:05:26] It starts with something like that of like, all right. Well, that's a big duh, right? But what I'm getting at is I think if you want to have less anxiety, you got to wring some of it out of your physical body as well. And that will help you achieve clarity. You have to think about it like a nutrient that you're taking or brushing your teeth or doing some – take your medication. You have to really think about it like that. And it doesn't matter what kind of stuff you do. It doesn't matter whatever you like to do. [1:05:56] in a parking lot. Do whatever. Do something. I couldn't agree more. You just have to do something where you push yourself, because if you don't, your body stores up, it seems, like all this anxiety. Yes. And the reason why I believe this, one of the reasons why I believe this is like, I [1:06:11] I've had some of like the best mindsets ever in my life after yoga classes and long stretching sessions where I'm working on something. I'm just like, you know what? I'm going to stretch out here and I'll just sit and stretch for an hour and a half, two hours. And when I get up, I feel wonderful. I feel like the world is beautiful. I want to hug people. I feel so peaceful. I love doing that like right before I do stand up. It's like one of my favorite things is to really stretch out right before I do stand up. [1:06:41] so relaxed it's so different so you're carrying around actual physical tension that affects your mind that's why i think regardless of the tools that you use in turn yes all of it i'm all of it that's why i'm not just mental performance yeah like it has to be all of its nutrition

[1:07:00] So important, right? The gut brain axis. It has to be nutrition, exercise, rigorous exercise. [1:07:06] How about your career? Living a life where you have like... [1:07:09] some sense of meaning, right? And starting to move towards that. Right. Don't do something you hate just because it pays you. If you have an option to do something that you might possibly love, if you want a better life, that's the life. Even if you're making less money, that's the life. You don't want to be doing something you don't want to do. You're trying to decrease the amount of stuck energy. And yes, that's what you're trying to do. When you feel suppressed, right? You're not doing what you want to do. The energy gets stuck. And if you're doing a job that you hate and you know, you could be doing something else. You just never fucking gone for it. Like, [1:07:39] away at you. The back of your head is just always there. It's always there. It's always there. Forever and ever and ever. It'll always eat away at you. You never took a chance. You just... They show up every day, 9am. [1:07:50] Punch in. Fuck. Just waiting for 5pm. Fuck. And then you get off and you're tired. [1:07:56] Yeah. And then you see other people that didn't do that, and you feel like shit even more. [1:08:01] And then, you know, it's like you're 40 and it's too late. You feel like, but it's not. It's never too late. Are you breathing? Are you alive? Okay. Then you can figure out. [1:08:11] something better than what you're doing. You don't have much time left. Yeah. That self-suppression creates a depression in any aspect, right? Yeah. Anytime you're trying to just [1:08:21] just like squeeze in, hold it in, hold it in, whether it's the inspiration you have, whether it's like, hey, I want to go play this sport. [1:08:29] Right. But I just never make time for it. That's self suppression. Like you have to make time for your natural inspiration to flow through. And if you don't,

[1:08:36] I think that's what creates depression. Well, it's very hard for people to get going, just to actually do something. [1:08:44] I brought this up a million times and I'll bring it up again, unfortunately. Steven Pressfield has an amazing book called The War of Art. [1:08:53] That suppression that you put on yourself... [1:08:56] That weird – and he calls it resistance. And he talks about summoning the muse and deciding that you're a professional and show up every day. And I think it's the same with that. It's the same thing. It's like it's hard to just get off the couch and put your shoes on. [1:09:11] Like Goggins talks about it. He's like, I stare at those motherfuckers for half an hour sometimes. I don't believe him. I believe him. He doesn't lie. You think he stares at them for 30 minutes? Yep, 100%. He doesn't lie. He's telling you the truth. That's why. Because he prudalizes himself. It makes sense that he stares at them for 30 minutes, but he probably literally stares at them. Yeah. Fuck you. He's just cussing them out. And then he just puts them on. You don't know me, son. Exactly. Then he puts them on. So there's something there. [1:09:39] You know? [1:09:40] There is. That resistance that Prestwell talks about, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Yeah, it's doing something to you. Whether you're an athlete, whether you're creative. I mean, I think it applies to everyone. [1:09:50] The resistance is whatever is holding you back from [1:09:53] following your natural inspiration? Well, I think a big part of that resistance is a fear of failure. There's a thing that hovers over people that's fear of failure and that [1:10:03] That actually... [1:10:04] It keeps you from just doing the things that you need to do to be successful. You get afraid for whatever weird reason. It becomes a predominant fear in your head. Broken code.

[1:10:16] There's so many reasons. Like, I'll give you an example. So I ran like a big fitness channel. [1:10:20] when I was... [1:10:21] trying to make it before I started working with cool clients who are like John Brady and built a big fitness community. And I would see that like a mom who's not doing her exercise, right? [1:10:31] And it's like, why don't you just do it? Just do it. Just get up. Just do it. [1:10:34] You go down into a subconscious line, oh, well, I believe that if I start working out, I won't have time to be the mom that I am right now. And then my kids will leave me. Completely irrational. [1:10:45] But subconsciously, that's what exists down there. For so many people, they think they're going to lose out on something. And if they lose it, it's not worth it subconsciously than doing the thing that they're inspired to do. [1:10:55] But it's also sometimes people, their health is bad, and then unfortunately they're not eating correctly, and that's why their health is bad, and they have zero energy. And so the daunting task of doing something on top of working all day, it's almost like overwhelming to them. Yeah. And then if they have kids and they have a bunch of – and then the option is get up at 6 a.m. Like, no. Fuck you. Well, that's the power of transmuting the energy. So just flipping the energy on it, right? [1:11:25] And maybe that will give them enough juice to actually go do the workout. Maybe. Maybe. I mean, there's got to be something that you can do to trick yourself into having the energy to get started. But that's kind of what it is. It's like you have to trick yourself into getting started. [1:11:40] And then... [1:11:41] When you get to an elite athlete level like Brady – [1:11:45] It's got to be about...

[1:11:48] making sure the process is airtight. [1:11:51] Right? It's got to be like really... [1:11:53] Tuning it in right like making sure it's finely tuned. Yeah, and [1:11:58] basically fight week. I want his energy. I want him to be matter of fact about everything. [1:12:03] Just a matter of fact. [1:12:05] Just neutral. Just sitting right here. You know the feeling you have in your heart where you're just like present? Mm-hmm. Just right there. [1:12:11] Right there. But how do you get there? Like, what's the way to get there? So for him at that elite level, it's going down and it's clearing out anything that comes up during camp. It might be... [1:12:21] and this isn't actually Sean, but I work with a lot of other fighters and for them [1:12:25] It would be, oh, I'm losing in some of my sparring sessions. And so their confidence is actually going down because of that. And so it's literally reprogramming that belief inside of them. And this sounds woo-woo, but if you ever want to do a session, you'll actually be able to feel it with me. And what happens is we transmute the energy to make them feel... [1:12:42] that it's okay to believe that even when they're losing in sparring, they're getting better. [1:12:47] Thank you. [1:12:48] And so something just shifts inside of them instead of it [1:12:50] creating a seed of doubt when they're like working on something, they're drilling something and they're not [1:12:54] winning everything now it's okay I'm getting better and it's just a feeling that shifts in them and [1:13:00] Well, that is reality, right? I mean, as long as they're not getting truly beat up. Rationally, of course. Sparring in a good place. But that survival instinct or that goes, I should be winning everything. Yeah. [1:13:09] doesn't like that. And so we, sometimes we have to rewire those things. So that's what we're doing as we're going through camp is like seeing what comes up, [1:13:15] What's decreasing confidence? What... [1:13:17] Are you dialed in everything? You know, I'm working with the other coaches as well and making sure are they doing what you want them to do? And if they're not.

[1:13:24] what's going on here. And that's kind of my job. So it imp [1:13:28] It has to have – rather it – [1:13:32] requires a very strong connection between you and the athlete. [1:13:36] Oh, deep. I would say that nobody knows any of my clients better than them. [1:13:43] except for maybe their wives. [1:13:45] Better than you know them. Yeah. It's an extreme intimacy. Because I talk about something in the book called The Core Wound. So the worst thing that ever happened to you is the worst thing that ever happened to you. But. [1:13:56] Some people have, you know, they might have witnessed a murder or maybe they lost a parent when they were young, like something really bad. Another person might have been bullied when they're in the fourth grade and kicked out of a friend group. If we identify what that core wound is for them, that... [1:14:09] fundamentally it hurts our confidence to this day and we clear that out we can exponentially increase just their confidence their self-belief but the only way we get there is they're telling me their deepest darkest secret right but how do you clear it out [1:14:21] Once you [1:14:22] There's just some of these techniques. There's something I call hypnosis. You can use it with hypnosis. NLP. There are all these mind techniques that you can utilize to... [1:14:32] clear the energy which clears the emotion so nlp that is uh like that anthony robbins stuff right neurolinguistic program that's what he does right i think it's part of what he does i don't know i've never worked with him but [1:14:43] And did you go to school to learn neuro-linguistic programming? No, I just studied with someone who taught it to me. Yeah, I just learned very well one-to-one. [1:14:50] just like that's how i learned not totally familiar with it how how complicated it is and i'll

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[1:16:28] Apply now for up to $500,000 in same-day business funding at cardiff.co.rogan. [1:16:35] Again, that's cardiff.co slash rogan. [1:16:38] Cardiff. Borrow better. [1:16:41] Because I know some people like really believe in it. It's all perception, right? Explain what it means by saying neuro-linguistic programming. What does that mean? [1:16:51] Yeah. [1:16:53] I don't even know what the... I don't know how to explain neuro-linguistic programming, but I will just tell you what it is. Okay. Fundamentally. You're just playing with perception, right? So someone has... [1:17:03] Something's easy for me to get rid of is like the fear of flying. I have this baseball player that I'm working with. Every time he gets on a flight, he starts freaking out. [1:17:10] unnecessary. So what do we do? We imagine him on the plane and I have him sit, visualize being on the plane and starting to get to that place of anxious, where the thoughts, oh, the plane's in a crash. He knows it's irrational, but why is he feeling this anyway? We have to go into a feel the emotion, feel the emotion. Then I have him imagine. [1:17:27] For example, a giant picture in his mind, his mind's eye. And this picture is holding him and all the anxiety and the worst case scenario happening. And then we, boom, get rid of the color in the picture. [1:17:37] And then we imagine this picture becoming super tiny. [1:17:40] And then we imagine it just disappearing. And then we put a new picture in there of him being able to fly, [1:17:47] Not crash. [1:17:49] Be able to do it all the time. [1:17:51] and be successful. That's it? That's it. What if it was 9/11 and he flew right into the tower right after you gave him that advice? Well, that sucks. How would you feel? Would that be it? You'd be like, "I quit. I'm done." Yeah. I mean, they sound like very simple techniques, but it's something you have to experience. Yeah, but it would seem to me that

[1:18:12] It would be very difficult to get people to actually change their beliefs that easily. Like the idea sounds solid, but the actual process of shifting how you view the world – [1:18:24] Depending upon the person is like turning a battleship around. Yeah, it is. It's heavy. I don't know I mean, this is the stuff that goes beyond the rational mind like if you were to experience it you'd be like, okay I get it. Yeah, but it's a it's a it's a [1:18:35] emotional experience. I mean, how do you [1:18:38] There's some things we can't explain, right? Like how do you explain going through the veil on a psychedelic experience? It's something that you can't really explain. [1:18:47] when you come back on the other side. It's that kind of thing where it's like, when you're in the experience, it's like, how is this supposed to be possible? I explain the techniques to you rationally, but like, what are you talking about? [1:18:56] Same thing if you have this [1:18:58] immense psychedelic experience and you're passing through the veil and you're seeing all these things having this experience of interconnectedness and you try to come back and you tell someone who's never had a psychedelic experience and be like what are you talking about yeah there's not enough words no any no words work this stuff goes beyond language it's the same thing yeah you can say like i saw a beautiful rose and i'm like oh cool i know what that looks like that's why it yeah yeah there's not enough words for a psychedelic experience so this work that's why i like i put together the playbook so i give people actual things that they can do because i understand [1:19:28] to one to be able to experience this. [1:19:30] People can do these simple exercises. People can audit their life and they can see some of the patterns of thinking. And just the awareness... [1:19:37] of seeing some of the patterns you're thinking, if you study enough, you might be able to change it. [1:19:42] We've all had bad habits

[1:19:44] And sometimes it just gets to a point where like, all right, [1:19:47] I'm not doing that anymore. So this neuro-linguistic programming, do you specifically design this kind of – so you do that as one of the things you do. Yeah. Do you specifically design different ones for different people that you work with if you're going to work one-on-one with a client? Yeah. [1:20:02] Honestly, I don't know what I'm going to do before I go into any session. It's all just... Just feel it out? I just feel it in the present moment. I mean, you could think of it like... [1:20:11] I have all these tools I can use, and then I feel into what their issue is, and then I do my best with the tools I have to fix their issue. [1:20:18] I'm just problem solving the moment. [1:20:21] Does it feel weird to do that as a career? I mean, that sounds like a crazy job. It feels like... [1:20:26] There's so much... [1:20:27] so much weight on your shoulders to try to help a person, like especially try to help an elite athlete, like knowing what to say and how to get their mind tuned in right and what to, what to introduce and whether or not this technique is effective. Am I doing this right? I just don't think I, I surrender to something bigger than myself. [1:20:45] Mm hmm. That's what I have to do is just allow. How did you know that you could do it, though? Like, how did you know that this was going to be like really effective, especially on someone like a fighter where it's like this is a really complicated gig? Like you really you want to talk about a sport where you have to have your mind right? Like there's no sport like fighting. Yeah, because any mistake you make, you're going to get head kicked. Yeah. Well, [1:21:06] I lose too sometimes, right? So like Weidman, I helped him come back, his first fight back from after he broke his leg. [1:21:13] And he said that's the best he's ever felt in his career going into a fight.

[1:21:17] He still lost a fight. [1:21:18] Yeah, there's a physical factor there, too. [1:21:21] um that whether or not a guy like weidman ever wants to admit because he's so tough because he has this incredible belief in himself but a catastrophic break of a bone like that when you're in your late 30s that is hard to come back from man that's not simple yeah it takes a long time and [1:21:39] You know, he came back, you know, he... [1:21:42] He eventually reached a higher level than in his first fight back, but he doesn't necessarily look like Chris Weidman when he beat Anderson Silva. Or Chris Weidman. [1:21:53] 39 now? Yeah. [1:21:55] Unfortunately. And these guys, it's like if you're natural and he's natural, they get to a certain point where the body just can't keep up with the brain. Like the brain is so strong and they're so tough, but their body is not a 24 year old's body anymore. It doesn't move right anymore. And this accumulation of injuries, regardless of your belief system. Yeah, it's just your foot doesn't work anymore, bro. You know, I mean. [1:22:18] That was me understanding when I was 18 years old. [1:22:21] I'm not that good at football. Like I don't have the physical gifts. Like I'm just not that athletic. I'm not gonna run that fast. And when, so this is how I discovered it, right? [1:22:28] I started to learn these techniques. Like I can do things like get rid of someone's headache very easily with some of these techniques. So like I have a teammate. [1:22:34] Had a terrible headache. I'd be like, all right, let's do some of these hypnosis relaxation techniques. He's like, my headache's gone. I'm like... [1:22:40] I'm way better than this than I was at football. And that was a spark within me that made me wonder. See, me, I would take him to the hospital. I'm like, bro, you might be having a stroke. Let's get you to the hospital. It's just a headache. Come on. It's just a headache.

[1:22:51] When a guy who's a tough guy complains about a headache, I always get concerned. [1:22:55] He wasn't that tough. [1:22:56] He's a football player. He's got to be tough. Bro, you want to see tough? Look at LeBron James' feet. I was looking at LeBron James' feet today online. Have you seen them, Jamie? Yeah, for sure. [1:23:07] Bro, how does that guy play elite basketball with those fucked up feet? [1:23:13] Like his feet are so broken because of all the years of exploding and twisting and turning and... [1:23:19] He's been playing professionally for how long? 20 years? 21, I think. That's bananas. Yeah, I don't understand that. Think about the amount of explosions he's forced his feet to perform. Imagine moving back and forth and you weigh 250 pounds. Like, that's nuts. That's so much force. He's not the same species as us. He's something else. Disciplined, bro. But look at those toes. [1:23:42] That is bananas. That's bananas. Like his toes just take... [1:23:48] Like sharp turns. That may or may not be accurate. That might not be, right? That other one looked better. Let me see that. [1:23:56] That looks a little better. It's a little over it. Yeah, it's a little over it. But he might be getting it. Maybe he did that on purpose. Maybe he did that for the picture just to be silly. Yeah. [1:24:05] This is the one that went viral a while ago. It was on the beach. Yeah, that's pretty obvious. So his big toe goes under the next toe. It's that twisted in. That's obvious. It also doesn't look the same foot as that foot. You know, Brian Simpson was having a problem with that, too, because he's got wide feet, and I told him about yoga toes.

[1:24:21] That stuff works, man. You ever use those? Mm-mm. They stretch your feet out. You put your toes in there, and they stretch. It's like a little rubber stopper in between each little toesie. I need some of that. And it stretches your foot out and makes it feel better. It relieves the pressure that you're getting with narrow-toed shoes where it's squishing it in the front, fucking your feet up. [1:24:42] Nice. But to be that tough, to play basketball with that kind of a foot for 20-plus years, that's nuts. [1:24:48] Yeah. [1:24:49] It's taken a lot of beatings. To be gotten and run with no knees. Nuts. [1:24:54] nuts that's what inspiration does though I think these guys just want it [1:24:59] They want it. They want to keep going. [1:25:01] They want to keep pushing it. They want to see what's possible. Yeah, I was watching a fight today. One of my little chat groups that I have with Dean Thomas and Matt Serra and John Rollo. A guy was fighting in a boxing, it looks like a boxing match, and he has one leg. [1:25:16] So he's hopping around with one leg trying to fuck this guy up. So if you ever think, like, maybe... [1:25:22] here let me find this you ever think like maybe life has been too hard on me maybe the barriers in front of me are insurmountable try fucking doing what this guy's doing because this is really kind of crazy [1:25:38] And I don't understand what they're doing because they're barefoot, but they're – [1:25:45] not kicking and i guess the guy can't kick because he only has one leg maybe they agreed no kicking but like why put a shoe on yeah you know i don't understand why if you guys aren't going to kick why don't you have shoes on it's better for your grip but this guy's hopping around did you get it jamie this guy's hopping around throwing punches with literally one leg look at this

[1:26:04] Oh! [1:26:05] How nuts is that? [1:26:07] One thing you do have to think... [1:26:10] It sucks that he only has one leg, but I bet he weighs about [redacted address]. Oh, yeah. So, like, he's probably got some strong-ass arms. But you can only generate so much force with one leg. I can't even balance on one leg. I know. His balance is insane, man. And his movement is really good, too. Like, there's people that have two legs that don't move that good. It's nuts. Yeah. [1:26:30] The other dude's like, I wish I could leg kick you. [1:26:34] That's so not fair. You can guarantee that dude can't kick you back. [1:26:38] Yeah. [1:26:39] So explosive. But it's just pretty nutty that... [1:26:42] you know, he's still willing to fight and he's hitting this guy. [1:26:46] I mean, it's... The human will. Yeah. It's incredible. It is incredible. The human mind can do very strange things if you let it keep going down a path and keep getting better and better. Yes. You know, you can get to a very strange place that... [1:27:00] you know, a lot of people don't want to believe exists. Yeah. Just to keep expanding the possibilities, right? Exposing yourself to new things. I think that's why, you know, [1:27:10] Like people in my field traditionally, like they're not doing psychedelics. [1:27:14] Like, it's not really... [1:27:16] a thing that people do. [1:27:17] Why do you think that is? I would think that anybody that's really exploring how the line works. I'd say maybe more sports psychology, stuff like that, because they're more clinical. They're more clinical people. They're doctors. They're people who are much more clinical and methodical about things. But for me... [1:27:34] My full ego death through the Bufo Toad was fundamentally the most important part of me learning to do what I do.

[1:27:41] Because in that experience, it created enough space between me and... [1:27:46] all my beliefs. You know, it's that like the neuroplasticity that gets created in those moments afterwards where you can actually kind of see things. You can kind of see the forest from the trees. If you never have the experience, then, [1:27:57] Like, this is something people talk about all the time, right? Is the whole thing, the ego is the enemy. It's like, well... [1:28:02] It depends what you're considering the ego because you can't get rid of the ego. [1:28:06] If the ego dies, [1:28:07] then you're just in the oneness. Right? So you need the ego. We have to build it up. And I think for fighters especially, like they need massive egos, but they need healthy egos. [1:28:17] egos that our program succeed. [1:28:19] Yeah, no ego is not attainable. [1:28:22] If you're a human being, you're going to have an ego. You just have to figure out how to manage it and don't let it burn your house down. It's like that custom auto quote about fear. [1:28:32] Fear is like fire. You can cook your food with it, or if it gets out of control, it will burn your house down. I think that's the case with many, many things, including psychedelics, by the way. I think there's a lot of people that burn their house down. I think there's a lot of people that go really far, and they lose their grip on reality. And reality gets real slippery, and they sort of try to redefine reality to fit their own narrative. And they seem schizophrenic. I've seen that from multiple people that have taken too many psychedelics. They're just abusing it. [1:29:02] like a tool. [1:29:03] Yeah, but it's also... [1:29:07] Everybody is... [1:29:08] has their own [1:29:10] specific way.

[1:29:13] that they interact with the world. [1:29:16] and [1:29:17] If you're taking psychedelics to justify your specific way of interacting with the world, and then you start – [1:29:24] indoctrinating other people to your specific way of running the world. You try to have a branch off civilization. [1:29:32] That's like this thing that happens to guys in particular. You don't see a lot of like female guru, psychedelic ladies, you know, or they're more like mother figures, but not like gurus. The gurus are all dudes. And it almost always sex. It's always down the pussy. Almost always. Or or dick, depending on what you're into. Yeah, because the guy out here in Texas in Austin was there was a there's a building that Ron White loved. [1:30:02] One World Theater that we were actually in contract, under contract for before I wound up buying the mothership. And that place was run by a cult. And this guy was a gay guy. He was a gay porn star and a hypnotist. There you go. That's a deadly combo right there. Who was teaching yoga to folks in West Hollywood and slowly but surely formed a cult. [1:30:23] And then after Waco, remember the Waco thing went down, everybody panicked and the Cult Awareness Network apparently was like looking for him and looking into him because like a lot of the family was like, we lost my son. He went to that. [1:30:36] Then he decided to change his name, and then he moved to Austin, and he had his followers build him a theater so he could dance in front of them, and that's here.

[1:30:45] And it was – there's a crazy documentary called Holy Hell. [1:30:50] But this guy, this is what's crazy. [1:30:52] Okay. [1:30:54] The people that hated him at the end of the documentary, the people that said that he was a giant scammer and he was a piece of shit and they wished they had never met him, they – [1:31:02] All said. [1:31:04] They had gone through this thing called the knowing, and the knowing was like he would withhold it from them, and a lot of them were like really upset. They weren't getting the knowing, and it was this thing that he would do where he would make them – I think they were on their knees. [1:31:16] And he would touch their face and tell them that it was going to happen. And they would all say the same thing. They would all say afterwards it was one of the most beautiful, the most beautiful experience of their life. They felt a complete, total connection with God. [1:31:30] And it changed their worldview and their perception forever. Like it's available in your mind if you believe, if you truly believe. And they truly believe that this guy was like a legitimate mystic. He was a legitimate guru. And because they believe that, even though this guy is a gay porn star and a hypnotist and a fucking psychopath, because they believe that when he put his hands on them, they felt it. [1:31:55] So what a complicated relationship. You have this guy who – one of the guys left the cult and he's like, hey, man, this guy has been hypnotizing me and fucking me for 10 years. And then everybody was like, me too. It got crazy. And then they all wound up leaving. [1:32:11] But he also did this thing for them where he connected them to God, which is really nuts, man. Because you would think, fuck that guy. That guy sucked. I can't believe it.

[1:32:22] But they're all like, but there was this one day. [1:32:25] It was almost like... [1:32:27] a part of the little... [1:32:29] cosmic joke of life. Yes, it is a cosmic joke. This fucking weirdo possesses the ability to literally connect you with God, but he behaves like a demon. He's just butt-fucking dudes and just taking all their money, and it's just madness. But what he's able to do when he touches you is real. [1:32:51] What a cosmic joke, if that's true. I believe it. There's all those Indian gurus, right? Where people tell the stories of all they have to do is gaze on me or touch me. I've never experienced any of this. And then you just feel... [1:33:03] Like you've had experience with God. Yeah, I believe it. I believe if you believe it. That's what I think. I think there are guys that are living a very different life. Just like we're talking about someone who can get to this David Goggins level of discipline and physical will. I think there's guys like that with meditation. And I think there's guys who get so far out there. [1:33:23] And if you recognize that they're so far out there, I bet you sync up. [1:33:28] with the way they're seeing the world, you let them think for you and you believe in them and then they do something to you. They put their hands on you or whatever. You believe it's going to happen and then your mind allows it to happen. I think we have access to a bunch of different states of consciousness. We just don't know the tools to access it. We don't know the code to crack, to open them. And for some people, it's a near-death experience, which seems to be a chemical reaction.

[1:33:58] reaction that people have when they come back from the dead. For other people, it's not for other people, like sometimes it's some sort of a life changing revelation. For some people, it's like, [1:34:09] It's falling in love or having a child or there's something that happens that like rewires the way they see the world. [1:34:17] And whatever those states are that are inside of us, [1:34:22] I can't imagine why there's not... [1:34:27] courses at major universities studying how to access this stuff, studying how to achieve endogenous states of psychedelic experiences. [1:34:37] Like James Nestor's book when he talks about holotropic breathing and all those different – Do you ever do that? I've done a bunch of it, yeah. I've had like legit trips from breathing. Yeah, I guide some guys, some of my clients, like they leave their body. They have experience of like leaving their body. It feels very weird. You can get it, especially when you do it – I like to do breathing exercises in a tank. In a float tank? Yeah, you do it in a float tank. Oh, that's cool. Whoa. Because the float tank itself is a psychedelic experience. [1:35:07] totally natural. It's the best one because there's no side effects and you can just open the door and it's over. Anytime you're freaking out, like, I can't take it. Open the door. Yeah. And then next time, stay in a little longer and then settle it. But, [1:35:21] Doing breathing exercises in there, I mean, you might as well be taking mushrooms. You can get some bizarre experiences doing that. Yeah. So we talked about, like, how do we get people on this path? I think it's these types of experiences that, like, open a doorway. It's like a hard reset. I think, actually, for most people, they should not do psychedelics. Most people? People who are, like, in a really dark state. You think most people are in a dark? Oh, okay. No, no, no. Most people who are in a very dark state, they're struggling with really bad depression, I don't think they should go right to psychedelics. I think there's steps before that.

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[1:37:21] We'll be right back. [1:37:48] Just get healthy first, too. Take some steps. But there's things you can... You know one of the things that's a really good thing to tell people to do? Find a fun physical hobby. [1:37:59] Something you can get good at. Whatever it is, whether it's fucking pickleball or whatever it is. Find a fun physical hobby that forces you to do a little bit of activity, [1:38:08] It doesn't have to be super strenuous, but something that you actually like doing, you get moving. You get moving. And then there's also the thing about getting good at something that for whatever reason really helps people. If you really focus on getting good at something, that thing becomes the puzzle. Instead of just dealing with all the anxiety of life, then that becomes your focus. Your focus becomes getting good at this thing. Humans need something to pour their energy into. 100%. And if you don't have that, you feel lost. And that's a lot of people in this world. [1:38:38] And that's the problem with just having a regular job, which also saps you of your energy. [1:38:43] You know? [1:38:44] Absolutely. It could be something very simple, you know, but just find something that you just want to move on a path. Just get on a path. [1:38:51] and that just incremental progress feels good. And the best thing is physical. Anything that you can do, that's why jiu-jitsu is so awesome.

[1:38:59] Because you could find that. [1:39:01] So you find the physical struggle but also this incredible mental puzzle that you're figuring out every day. And then also you're dealing with all these anxieties and emotions and these weird feelings like, fuck, I don't want to roll with him. Oh, goddammit, he's going to get me. And you're rolling with people. Then you've got to learn how to relax. You've got to learn – and you're like, oh, my god, he didn't tap me this session. Like maybe you got nominated, but at least you didn't tap. [1:39:24] And then next time, maybe you reverse someone. Maybe you sweep someone that you never sweat before. And you're just like, oh, my God, I'm getting better at this. And you've got this puzzle. And then you've also got this extreme physical activity where the rest of the day seems so easy. It seems so relaxing. No matter what happens, you're so calm because you've been – [1:39:46] Getting your fucking legs yanked on and your neck yanked on and fucking take it down and side control crushed and getting arm triangled. And this is easy. Like no matter what you experience outside of that, you're bar for what sucks. It's like your thing you do the most that sucks so hard is what you love. Yeah. Which is nuts. So it cures you. [1:40:08] In a lot of ways. And I think it's the remedy for young men. There's a lot of men that just... [1:40:14] And it's filled with nerds. You need to know that too. Like it's not meatheads. You think it's meatheads. It's mostly not. Mostly it's like really intelligent people that excel at this physical puzzle. And then through that thing, they develop all this confidence. They become like much cooler people, much more interesting to hang out with.

[1:40:33] Like all my friends that are like black belts in jujitsu, they're all interesting. They're all cool to talk to. Like if I can talk to a guy and they tell me they're a black belt in jujitsu, I'm like, oh, okay. You've gone through the whole thing. Like you've gone through some shit. Like, okay, I guarantee you, you and I can find common ground. Like we could talk. Yeah. [1:40:51] It's like... [1:40:52] There are things that are out there that are available to you that are a vehicle for developing your human potential. That's what I was taught when I was a kid and I was learning Taekwondo. That's how they described it. I never forgot that, a vehicle for developing your human potential. I was like, that's perfect because I think you don't just do it from thinking about stuff and thinking different. I think you need physical stuff that you do. [1:41:17] The best physical stuff is scary stuff. Yeah. Rite of passage. Yeah. We don't have many rites of passages. Yeah. And doing any type of martial arts and having to compete is like, oh, this is scary. Yeah. It's building, it's building, it's building. What's going to happen? And you kind of have to face that fear of death in a way. It's like, you know, you're not going to die. But in a way, it feels like it when you're going to competition. It's like, this person is going to try to hurt me. Yeah. And to come through that and get to the other side, there's something that changes in your nervous system. For sure.

[1:41:47] few people ever experience. And it's very different than a street fight because you're agreeing to it and you're training for it. You've got this other person who's like training, you know, they're scary as shit and they're on the other side of the cage and then you step in and the two of you are about to go to war. It's the nuttiest job in the history of the world. [1:42:04] It really is. Other than war and being a firefighter or a cop, it is the nuttiest job in the history of the world. You're agreeing to throw bones at each other in front of the world, millions of people. Yeah, people love it. And today they just announced the UFC just signed some crazy deal with Paramount+. I saw that. There's going to be no more pay-per-views. [1:42:23] All the events are going to be available... [1:42:26] For everybody for free, every pay-per-view, every fight card that they have from the Apex, which are my favorite. Everything is going to be available for free. It's an amazing deal. I think it's going to explode the sport even more. Oh, my God. Through the roof. And it's a super smart move for Paramount. What a great move to not just have the UFC for seven years but have it for free. Yeah. [1:42:49] Like, I don't think Paramount costs, but what? How much does it cost a month? [1:42:55] $8 or $10, I think. $10. So let's say it's $10. [1:42:59] That's crazy. That's $120 a year. You could watch every UFC pay-per-view. Two UFC pay-per-views is like $140, right? Isn't it? Yeah, I think it's $70. So you get all of them. [1:43:12] Everything's free. [1:43:13] That's incredible. This sport is going to go fucking hypernova. Because the average person only knows about the stars. You know what I mean? But they're kind of detached because they're only watching highlights. Now they get to actually watch about the stars. They're going to be so much more bought into this sport. Yeah. Yeah.

[1:43:26] It's going to be nuts. And it's such a smart move for Paramount because you have a built-in audience that's immediately going to jump over there. Because everybody – you have to renew your ESPN subscription anyway. [1:43:36] You have to renew it, so just buy a Paramount subscription. Yeah. [1:43:42] By the way, ESPN has everything, too. It's great. I'm kind of bummed out, and I hope they don't lose the relationship that they had with ESPN with all their MMA shows. I hope they don't go like, fuck them, they went to Paramount. I hope it's like a mutually beneficial thing, like the UFC at least does some content still on ESPN, because I think that's also a big factor in pulling people from casual viewers that watch other sports that might occasionally watch a UFC fight. [1:44:12] And then they're hooked, right? It's like having that coverage on SportsCenter, that shit's huge. Having those post-fight shows on ESPN+, that shit is huge. For the real dorks like me, that's huge. Yeah, I think even for the average person that cares more about storytelling. It's like maybe the wives are like, this is interesting to hear about the drama of their life a little bit and the hero's journey. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, well, it's – [1:44:39] Unbelievably compelling when you watch two world-class fighters fight in a world championship fight. Yeah. Unbelievably compelling, you know. [1:44:48] Like when you watch Sugar Sean O'Malley try to get the title back from Rob. That was so compelling. Yeah. Sugar Sean changes his whole life. Did you talk with him at all? I haven't. I'm very curious. I would love to talk with him because I know he cut out weed, right? Cut out weed, stop jerking off, I believe, and abandon all social media.

[1:45:06] Yeah. Which is very fascinating. [1:45:08] I might be wrong about the jerking off. I think I might have added that in there. [1:45:12] But he recognized that this guy is a motherfucker. He's a completely different thing. [1:45:19] is like a David Goggins in that respect, that he's so far down the path that, [1:45:25] of pushing himself, that it's almost like you're never going to catch him. [1:45:29] In that game. [1:45:31] Like six months of not jerking off and staying off TikTok, I don't think that's even close to enough. [1:45:41] I think what he's been doing... [1:45:43] Has been really insane for a long time everybody that I talked to that's trained with that guy say he's fucking superhuman with his cardio and [1:45:52] And his work ethic is through the roof, man. [1:45:55] When DC went to see him the day after he won the title... [1:45:58] He was out running. DC went to his house. Sicko. And DC's filming his garage gym set up. And he's like, this motherfucker is out running. He's out running the day after winning the world title in a spectacular five-round performance. [1:46:13] where he shows superhuman cardio, like superhuman pressure. [1:46:18] there's a few guys like that. [1:46:20] Yeah, it's fascinating to look at. [1:46:23] just that level, the elite, elite, elite, elite level, and to see the commonalities between them. For me, as someone who loves studying the mind, and it's like, what is different about these guys? [1:46:34] Is there anything you could do to catch up or are they just built different? Are they just wired away? Did you see the Anthony Hernandez-Roman Delice fight this weekend? No. Bro, you got to see that fight. You have to see that fight. Anthony Hernandez is a fucking problem. He's a fucking real problem. He doesn't get tired, man. He pushes an insane pace and he doesn't get tired. He melts dudes. He just melts them.

[1:47:00] Thank you. [1:47:01] He does stuff where you just go, how are you pushing this kind of pace? It's like a middleweight version. Someone said it in the comments, too. Merab was in Roman's Corner because they're both from Georgia. And he's like... [1:47:14] And Murab is in the corner while Roman fights the middleweight version of Murab because it really was like that. [1:47:19] Fluffy Hernandez is... [1:47:21] Wild dude. It's like whatever he's doing in his training or whether he just has a like some people like Cain Velasquez had natural cardio gift. I don't know what it is, but it's insane. [1:47:33] He submitted Rodolfo Vieira. [1:47:35] Multiple time world jiu-jitsu champ just exhausted the fuck out of him and guillotined him. [1:47:40] which is just nuts to watch that guy tap. [1:47:43] Do you know who he is? No. I know boxing way more than UFC. Vieira is built like a superhero. He doesn't even look like a real human. [1:47:51] He looks like a cartoonish, like CGI version of what an elite MMA athlete looks like. Just chiseled. And Fluffy doesn't look like that. Covered in tattoos. You know, looks athletic. You know, looks tough. But Rodolfo Vieira is a – that's him. [1:48:08] Oh, yeah. Bah... [1:48:09] Row. [1:48:12] You know those photos of what your girlfriend tells you not to worry about? That one where he's got his sleeves down by his elbows in the lower, yeah, that one right there. Bro. Yeah. What are you talking about? [1:48:24] And... [1:48:26] I don't think Fluffy was even a black belt. I think Fluffy was a brown belt at the time.

[1:48:30] I want to be correct about that. He's a black belt now, right? [1:48:33] Anthony Hernandez, MMA. I think he's a black belt. But to submit that guy was just one of the – like if you had a – [1:48:44] If you had a bet in Vegas... [1:48:45] you know [1:48:47] Like if you were on DraftKings Sportsbook – [1:48:49] And you bet Fluffy Hernandez to submit Rodolfo Vieira. You probably get like 25 to 1 odds. Brown belt. He's still a brown belt. [1:48:59] He's still a brown belt in jiu-jitsu. He submitted a multiple-time world champion just by melting him. [1:49:06] Just melting him. [1:49:07] I'd love for you to talk to that guy, find out what the fuck he's made out of. I'd love to. [1:49:11] Love to hit me up, bro. He's different, man. There's certain dudes that are just different. You know, like what Goggins likes to call uncommon amongst uncommon men. That dude's uncommon. If I was a middleweight, I'd be like closely watching that guy like Jesus Christ, because he's also like every fight. He keeps getting better. And it's just a storm that starts from the first minute of the first round and never stops. You never get to break. There's no breaths. He's constantly on you. He takes a great shot. [1:49:41] 52 takedowns, 8 fight win streak, 6 finishes. [1:49:45] bro [1:49:47] That guy. [1:49:48] Thank you. [1:49:48] There's guys that just emerge from groups of, like, super talented contenders where you just go, holy shit. And that's one of them. That's awesome. Yeah. I've done luck after him. I've got to go back and watch the fight. So for a guy like you that's, like, a mental coach, I always, like, wonder. I'd like you to, like, talk to that guy and maybe you can pass some of that on to everybody else. Like, what is he doing? Yeah. How is he? Is he just training harder than everybody else? Is he just – is it his mindset?

[1:50:18] does not give a fuck because it seems like there's a lot of that there too he's just mentally super strong and super aggressive [1:50:25] That's what I love to do. I give these guys these prompts, and I just audit, and I pull out all their beliefs. And it's super interesting to hear. [1:50:32] What beliefs create an elite performer and just hearing – [1:50:37] all the ones that are making them successful and all the ones that are [1:50:40] causing them problems. Want to hear what's really crazy? [1:50:43] Dude smokes a ton of weed. [1:50:45] ton of weed [1:50:47] I'm going to quit the weed this dude's like give me all your weed when I was doing a lot of boxing I was smoking a ton of weed I was smoking weed every single day and I don't anymore but at the time I was like [1:50:59] I had to get surgery on my nose because I had busted up so many times. Yeah, I got that surgery. Yeah. Oh, my God. Isn't it nice when you get it done, though? [1:51:08] I fell down a flight of stairs when I was five, so I've never had a good nose. My nose has been fucked since I was a little kid. [1:51:14] So I never could breathe out of my nose. And then years of getting punched and kicked and getting head-butted in grappling classes. I had a... [1:51:21] I was going to the doctor because I was still sparring during COVID. And I was going to the doctor and they were just telling me, oh, I think you have COVID. That's what they told me. They're like, oh, I think you just have stuffiness. We're going to have you tested from COVID like two different times. And eventually I just got x-rays and I'm like, oh, your nose is destroyed. Yeah. It happens like an ear, right? [1:51:40] You know how the ears get cauliflower? You get that same kind of buildup of calcium deposits inside your nose. Just close it off. They have to carve it out. Yeah. Ever seen what it looks like when they get the chunks and they lay it out for you after they take it out? They took a piece from my ear. They took the ear cartilage. To rebuild your nose? The funniest thing is so...

[1:51:57] I spent a lot of time in Columbia, and I went down there for the surgery. You went to Columbia for ear-to-nose surgery? Oh, I do everything, all my stuff in Columbia. I got LASIK eye surgery in Columbia. Jesus, bro. They invented it in Bogota, Columbia. Did they really? They did. No shit. Yeah, medical stuff is amazing. Honestly, this is going to sound funny, but when I go there, it almost makes the U.S. feel like a third-world country. That's crazy. Just because it's so inexpensive, the doctors are good, the facility is great. Anyhow. [1:52:27] I come out of it, I'm missing the back of my ear. I didn't understand that part. Why didn't they do the rib? Usually they do the rib cartilage, right? They said they might do the rib. [1:52:34] But I don't remember. They changed their mind and went with your ear? I guess the ear. How does your ear look like now? I'm going to show it to you. Show me. [1:52:42] Okay, you got a missing chunk, son. [1:52:44] Whoa. Now it lays kind of flat. Oh, that's crazy. Not that bad. Not bad. But you don't grapple, so you don't have cauliflower. That would get weird. Because there would be no structure. So it would super droop like a Labrador. What do you think? I haven't gotten into jiu-jitsu just because I was told by some of my friends that I could re-break my nose just by the pressure of people leaning on it all the time. I just don't want to get the surgery again. When I got my surgery, I was fully addicted to jiu-jitsu. So I waited six weeks, and I started rolling again. [1:53:14] And how's your nose been? [1:53:15] It's fine. But I protected it, and I told everybody that I was rolling with him, and I just got no surgery. [1:53:20] So please don't cross-face me if you're trying to get a rear naked choke or something like that. There's certain guys that are real mean, and they get...

[1:53:27] They get your back and they'll fucking do this with your nose to get you to lift your chin up. They'll go forearm blade right into the nose, which I understand for competition. But for the gym, the problem is like you can really break a guy's nose and then fuck him up for the rest of his life until he gets it fixed. What about now when you train? Don't do that. Is it a concern? I haven't been training in a long time. I haven't been training in over a year. [1:53:49] No rolling at all in over a year. But it's – [1:53:52] Not a concern. It works great. It's fine. If I got it broken and it was a problem, I'd definitely 100% get it fixed again. The benefits of being able to breathe out of your nose, and I've talked to a ton of fighters about this. Some of them are like, I'll wait until after I'm done fighting. But Drekas Duplessis, who's defending his title this weekend, Drekas, he started his career with a fucked up nose in the UFC. And it really affected his cardio. His mouth was wide open. He got it fixed, and it was like this immediate bump in performance. I mean immediate. [1:54:22] Along the way and for sure he was you know figuring out how to tightening up tighten up his techniques and he's just an animal right? [1:54:29] But on top of that, having that nose fixed was a significant difference. He didn't have to have his mouth open all the time. That's the ideal way to breathe if you can just breathe through your nose, right? It limits your cardio in a significant way. I noticed like a 10% bump in cardio is what it felt like to me. Like I could feel the difference in being able to breathe out of my nose. And also to be able to bite down on your mouthpiece, like if you're really clamping down on something, and you could still breathe perfectly. That was huge.

[1:54:59] open. That's terrible. Like you, if you want to squeeze on something, you want to be like this, you want to feel like fucking and you can't, you can't bite down. [1:55:07] They've done studies on that, right? Like people lifting stuff with like certain mouthpieces in and certain mouthpieces actually increase their strength. Powerlifters use them, right? Yeah, I think they do it for sure also to not break your teeth. [1:55:21] Because I went to a dentist once and the dentist was like, you have like micro fractures on all your teeth. [1:55:27] Like, do you lift weights? And I go, yeah. He goes, like, you're clenching your teeth all the time. Oh, yeah. So I stopped doing that so much, and I definitely started. I worked out with a mouthpiece for a long time, like lifting. But I think there's a certain mouthpiece of the design that sets your jaw in a certain way that it actually enhances your strength. [1:55:46] There's like some sort of a connection between like having your jaw perfectly aligned and clamping down on this mouthpiece that allows you to actually lift more weight. [1:55:55] Hmm. [1:55:56] Find out if that's true because I know that that was definitely a marketing claim for this mouthpiece thing, but I just don't remember much of it. [1:56:04] But I remember looking into it. [1:56:05] Years ago. [1:56:06] It was like a weird mouthpiece with the bottom had a hole cut into it so you could breathe out of it. I think I've heard something about that. I know grunting is supposed to help you lift more weights. That makes sense. That's why they keep it out of that LA Fitness place. They get mad at you. No, Planet Fitness. Planet Fitness, yeah. I did see a study because I was looking at all these studies to increase strength performance when I was studying all this stuff. I was like, grunting? [1:56:25] That's so crazy that if you lift weights there too loud, they sound an alarm and they kick you out. Like you tried to, the lunk alarm. The lunk alarm.

[1:56:34] Yeah. [1:56:36] That's funny. It's safe for those people who want to be there. It's a nice, safe environment. Yeah, I get it. [1:56:41] But... [1:56:42] Also, don't you want to be inspired by someone who's working out really hard? Like if I go to the gym and there's a guy there like, whoa, that guy's there. And you watch that guy do some crazy routine. As long as he's nice. Like what do you care if he's grunting? But that's kind of society, right? We've got the padded walls in many places for people. Yeah. I guess it intimidates people. It scares them. And then maybe people – what is this, Jamie? Yeah. [1:57:03] The mouthpiece? Mouthpiece? Yeah, that's it. I don't know if it's proven. Yeah, I don't know if it's proven either. Yeah. [1:57:10] But is this official mouthpiece of the world's strongest man? It's patented. [1:57:14] boosting muscular force and power. [1:57:17] Huh. [1:57:18] It's patented. [1:57:19] So how does it work? Does it say how it works? No. [1:57:21] I was looking, I didn't see any... [1:57:25] This is, I don't know, that's what it says. [1:57:27] The thing is, if you believe it works, it probably works. Yeah, I don't know how much. Designed to absorb clenching while guiding optimal tongue positioning during high stress exertion. [1:57:36] Hmm. [1:57:39] I don't know. I don't know. [1:57:40] Um, but... [1:57:42] Being able to breathe out of your nose is giant kids. So if you don't have that [1:57:46] If you've got that problem, get it fixed. What do you think about – If you can. [1:57:49] weed and fighting because I'm going to ask you a couple different questions. When I was living in LA, I knew this neuroscientist and we ran like a little fun study where I was a big stoner. So he had me stop smoking weed [1:58:01] for two weeks, I think it was. He did all these brain tests with me. And then he tested me,

[1:58:08] two weeks afterwards and I play football and box, right? So [1:58:11] A lot of hits to the head. And he said that without weed... [1:58:15] He showed, like... [1:58:16] it showed that I had a fair amount of like... [1:58:19] brain damage, like my brain wasn't functioning, it would. When I smoked weed, went back in there, he said there was some kind of like neuroprotective effect where like I was, my brain was like registering [1:58:29] as more healthy. [1:58:30] Well, it's not part of the problem with CTE and any kind of – [1:58:34] brain issue in general part of the problem is inflammation right [1:58:39] Yeah. [1:58:39] There's a minute. [1:58:40] That's one of the things that they say, like... [1:58:43] Changing your gut bacteria has an effect on mood. There are a lot of people that have real gut problems. So using weed decreases inflammation in the brain? Yeah. Well, weed certainly decreases inflammation, and that's why people use it for pain management. [1:58:57] people with sore backs and [1:59:00] Yeah. People going through chemotherapy, it also improves your appetite for people going through chemo because it's hard for them to eat. But weed most certainly can help with pain management with some kinds of pain. I know some people that have tried it for like debilitating pain and it just doesn't do a damn thing. It just makes them almost more aware of it. But it's variable, man, because I was just – [1:59:24] Jamie, who's the guy who killed bin Laden? You know that Navy SEAL guy who killed bin Laden? [1:59:31] He's on... [1:59:33] Yeah, he's on Instagram. [1:59:36] O'Neill something? [1:59:36] Right. But let's say his full name out of respect. I believe it's Robert. Well, how about look it up? I don't believe it. And find his Instagram because he has something to do with the cannabis business. And like –

[1:59:51] This guy is just... [1:59:53] super badass tip of the spear [1:59:56] Special Forces operator right and [1:59:59] There it is, Robert O'Neill. Go to his, see if you can find his Instagram. [2:00:04] What does it say? That's him. It says set to petal pot in New York City. It said it helps get rid of the noise. He's also an advocate for Ibogaine. He's done Ibogaine multiple times. But go to his Instagram page, Jimmy, if you could. Yeah. [2:00:22] Uh... [2:00:23] I forget it's like Mr. Who Ya or something like that. Um... [2:00:27] But – [2:00:28] He said that it helps him go to sleep at night, helps him relax and go to sleep at night. [2:00:33] Like there's – scroll down. Go back to the grid and scroll down. There's a – [2:00:42] in there. [2:00:43] Like where they grow all the stuff that he sells. That makes sense because it has that disassociative effect, right? Right. And so it's easier maybe to get out of your head. [2:00:53] But it flies in the face of this very public narrative. [2:00:59] Which is pot is for lazy people. Pot is for losers. Pot's going to rot your brain. Pot's going to make you stink. Pot's going to make you an idiot. Can't find it? I mean, yeah. [2:01:09] I don't know where it is. This company's thing. I'll find it in a second. Maybe that's the far right one with his hands outstretched like Jesus. That's the one him talking about Ibogaine. And I looked at that. [2:01:20] Mikuya.

[2:01:21] on Instagram. [2:01:23] When a guy like that is smoking weed, you've got to throw it out the window. All your preconceived... It's like... [2:01:29] Everybody is biologically different. And for some people, alcohol just fucks them up. For some people, marijuana is a no-go. It's not good. They freak out. But also when you're a dog, we're dogs. We like to get after it. We like to work out. We like to do things. [2:01:47] I almost like when I was smoking weed every day to be the guy who could be super fit, to be training boxing every day and like to be achieving my business and smoke weed every day. Like I kind of took this like weird pride in it for some time as well. Bro, one of my favorite things to do was to smoke weed and hit the bag. Yeah. So meditative. Yeah, man. You also – Form goes out the window a little bit. No, it doesn't. For me, it's the opposite. For me, I feel everything. Like for me, I feel – Maybe I'm just judging myself. The timing more when I'm hitting things. [2:02:17] more coordinated. Like when I'm throwing a kick, it's just like I feel the time to like accelerate, the time to get the hips into it at all. I'm more sensitive. It feels better. [2:02:29] Like you tune into it. It makes my pool game 100% better. Really? Oh, 100%. It's like steroids for pool. But I also hear you on the podcast when you've done it before. Like you stay dialed in to a degree. Like maybe you don't have the same recall. That's right. But that's the point that I was making earlier. It's different for everybody. It's not like I am different than other people. There's people that don't think the way I think. They don't have life experiences that I have. They don't have the ability to manage like the weirdness that comes with weed, which

[2:02:59] I like. I genuinely like it. Do you like that voice? I like it. Don't get too big for your britches. Yes! I like it. I like being scared. [2:03:09] I think it's good for you. Yes. As long as you use it wisely, like you take that weirdness like, oh, maybe I should go give him a call and explain myself better. Maybe I should reach out. Maybe I should do this. Maybe I should do that. Maybe I should, like, make it easier for these people. Maybe I should – you know, it makes me like – [2:03:27] very considerate. [2:03:30] I think it's a really... [2:03:31] potent tool for managing your state of mind. [2:03:35] But that's just for me. I don't know how your mind works. I would only be pretending, right? Like we're all on – [2:03:43] a different mind journey too right yes if you're a person who was beaten by their parents and you were fucking mugged and then this happened to you and that happened to you and you got fucked over at work and it and then here you are there like that's very different than a person who's had a lot of success and been real lucky and got to a point and has a healthy mindset maybe it's more nostalgic you kind of smoke what you're thinking about you know it gives you time to separate a [2:04:13] pot's not for you. If you're a real mess and you're barely hanging on to regular life, [2:04:20] Maybe freaking yourself out with a potent THC is not the way to go. Especially these days. [2:04:25] What I'm getting at is maybe as your journey progresses and you get healthy and you get more confident and strong and more successful, maybe then. Maybe not even then. Maybe that's not your thing. You have to be honest about what's your thing.

[2:04:40] You have to find – the problem with things being illegal is you don't have that opportunity. And then you have people that have bad personal experiences with it and they're like, pot makes you stink, pot makes you a dummy. Maybe it does that for you. But it doesn't do that for me. For me, it makes me nicer to my friends. It makes me want to pet my dog. It makes me want to chill out. [2:04:59] It's like it makes me want to have fun with my friends. It makes me want to laugh. [2:05:04] It doesn't make me stink. Well, it probably makes me stink. [2:05:08] But it doesn't make me any dumber, that's for sure. [2:05:12] And it makes me more inquisitive. It makes me more interested in – [2:05:17] For sure, subjects that I have no understanding of that are fascinating, like cosmology. There's nothing like getting high and watching a space documentary. Just to try to put it into perspective, like what it is worth living in. What is the reality of the physical universe and its majesty that's above your head every day? Like that is – when you're high, you're like, how am I not paying attention to this? This is really a crazy thing that this is probably the most profound – [2:05:47] experience that a person could ever have in their life is like being on a planet going through space and we completely take it for granted yeah i think to a degree it's good to have some kind of cadence where you have something that allows you to kind of step back from yourself yeah i think it's good it could be some mushrooms could be just meditative like breathing exercises yoga class yeah doing something or running that's i think that's a lot of the high of running you know when people like really exert themselves like you're just thinking about your breath

[2:06:17] You're just getting after it. You're five, six miles in. And when you're done, you're like, wow. [2:06:23] That runner's high is 100% real. Oh, yeah. [2:06:27] 100% real. [2:06:29] and that's how they're getting it. [2:06:31] And that's how they're separating themselves. [2:06:34] And I think a person who can regularly run on a regular basis, miles and miles and miles, that's a special person. That's a very unusual person. That's a person of will, you know. [2:06:45] Thank you. [2:06:45] A person could just, at any time, you could just tag them, let's go run, and they can run like, that's what Goggins and Cam Haynes do to each other, these fucking psychopaths. Cam Haynes calls Goggins and says, hey, I'm in Vegas, let's go running. And so Goggins calls out a spot check. Like if you have a true friend, he spot checks you. Those motherfuckers ran a marathon. [2:07:04] In the streets of Las Vegas, they ran 26 miles just because. Yeah, at like a six-minute mile pace. Like bananas. Bananas. [2:07:13] Just bananas, like out of nowhere. Like you didn't know I was coming. I call you. Let's go. Let's go running. Let's see what's up. And two fucking complete total psychopaths running 26 miles in the Las Vegas heat. [2:07:27] Nuts. Yeah. So there's people like that out there that are just – [2:07:31] Different and their their journey to be different is taking a long time to get to where they are right now What are your beliefs around because I have mine just from my experience. What are your beliefs on where they were? I? [2:07:43] before they are born? Do you think that this is, they have something in them because of a previous life?

[2:07:49] Oh, I don't know [2:07:52] That's a good question. [2:07:53] If previous lives were proven to be true, which right now they're not, it's just an idea because you can't know. How could you know? But a lot of people and a lot of religions and a lot of different cultures have believed in reincarnation. There's actually I think – [2:08:07] What university? Maybe University of Virginia? There's a whole department that's studying people who've had these near-death experiences that are going back and talking about... [2:08:15] previous lives? It's an interesting question, but there's no evidence, right? There's no data. Jamie, I don't know if you've seen this or heard of it. Well, I mean, even if these people have stories, unless they have stories that match up with historical facts. Yeah. Well, I think it is. [2:08:33] You have like some kids who are just telling you about someone else's life and they should not know it. But they're like – I have heard those stories. Yeah. But I don't know if those are real because one of the problems is people bullshit. And they make things out to be a little bit more profound than they are so it makes for a better story. And if you're a true believer, maybe even juice up the results a little bit. It's hard to know. Yeah. But I'm not opposed to the idea of a reincarnation. And I'm not opposed to the idea that some people are just special. [2:09:01] Because it seems like that's real. [2:09:03] It seems like there's certain people that just emerge and there's just something about them and it's not necessarily just the hard work. It's not necessarily just the mindset. There's something going on. I like the framework of it, of thinking about this infinite game. [2:09:16] You know, because then someone it's like, well, why am I going to do this work? It just sounds like a lot of work. All this self introspection. It's like to understand that like you're playing this infinite game. Yeah. If you deal with your shit now, then your life is going to be more peaceful and have more flow in the future. If you don't deal with it, this is just.

[2:09:31] You're just kicking the ball down the road. Yeah, well, that's true. At least it is true in this life, and I don't know. I feel like it could be true in your next one as well. If you have a next one. I mean, that's the thing. It's like maybe it's not as simple as that. [2:09:45] We're just assuming every time we wake up that we're in the same timeline. But just the idea of going to sleep is really kooky. Yeah. It's really kooky. [2:09:54] You know? [2:09:55] You just... [2:09:56] You decide to close your eyes every night and you just disconnect from physical reality for hours at a time and it's necessary? [2:10:03] And we all just take it for granted. Where do we go? Oh, normal. I don't know where we go, but I go to a lot of zombies. Do you really? Oh, yeah. I have a lot of zombie dreams. I have a lot of – last night I had a great zombie apocalypse dream. We need a dream interpreter in here. [2:10:17] Yeah, well, I don't think I have a whole lot of confidence in the human race keeping it together. [2:10:22] At the very best, I'm like 60, 40 plus that we're going to figure it out. But that 40 percent – In your lifetime or just – Yeah, like maybe this week. Who fucking knows? It's all dependent upon what kind of disaster takes place. [2:10:37] It's all dependent upon what kind of shit goes down. And when you look historically, shit has always gone down when people thought shit could never go down, and that's us right now. [2:10:47] And that's why zombie movies work. [2:10:50] Yeah. [2:10:51] And that's why they're making them infiltrating into your brain. Yeah, I started watching 28 years later, Jamie. Oh, yeah, that'll do it. I shut that bitch off. I was about to go to bed. It was like 8 o'clock at night. I'm like, let me watch this. I'm like, no, no, no. I figured it out 10, 15 minutes. I don't want to say what happened, so I don't want to spoil it. You got to watch some Barney after that. But right away, I was like, okay, this is one where I'm going to have to do hours before I go to sleep because them zombie dreams.

[2:11:15] Even watching, like, the House of Dragon in Game of Thrones, like, some gruesome stuff before bed. Yeah, like, real hardcore, like... [2:11:22] realistic violence is rough right before you go to sleep. I mean, just what I know about the mind, how the subconscious works, like, it's just obvious. Every time I go to bed, I'm like, you shouldn't have done that. For sure. For sure. Here's what's interesting, though. I can watch brutal fights and sleep like a baby. [2:11:37] That seems weird. I wonder why. That's weird because that's real violence, right? The stuff that I'm seeing in the movies I know is horseshit. Yeah. [2:11:44] for some reason it feels more controlled. [2:11:47] I don't know. I think I'm just used to it, honestly. I think it's like everything else. I think, you know, there's a lot of doctors that they'll tell you, if they're being honest with you, that there comes a time when people die that it doesn't affect them the same anymore. You know, they're so used to people dying, especially like emergency room doctors dealing with like – [2:12:05] traumatic injuries and [2:12:07] Do you get accustomed to people dying? I think it's also the idea of, like, evil, though. You know, if you're watching something, you're seeing evil take place. Right. Versus, like, for me, when I watch MMA, I'm like, I know these guys. Like, I see – I love these guys. Right. You know? I've never met – I've never worked with a guy who I don't love. They all have great hearts, and, like, I feel this genuine, like – [2:12:26] Goodness. [2:12:27] Like I haven't met that many guys. I don't know them all. But like when I see it, I don't see like evil. There's a lot of really, really, really good guys and good women that fight in MMA. And it's because of what we talked about before. They've gone through something insanely difficult. They're a very special person. Even people that you don't think are like great people. Like Sean Strickland, super controversial. Sean Strickland is a fucking great guy. If you get him alone, you talk to him, he's a great guy. He's super smart, super disciplined, saved up a ton of money.

[2:12:57] the other day about like he's got like four million bucks saved. [2:13:00] Super smart man for him. Yeah, so he could like retire at any moment live a simple life and never work again, you know, and I [2:13:07] He's not... [2:13:08] But he's outrageous. You know, he's outrageous. He says wild shit. But it's also – it's like – [2:13:14] What do you expect from the way that guy grew up? He didn't grow up the way you grew up. He's got some unresolved trauma. [2:13:19] 100%. And I don't know. This is something I think some fighters think about. It's like, if I get rid of my trauma, am I going to be weaker? Do I need this? [2:13:27] I don't believe they do. That's from my experience. Yeah, I don't think they do either. But then again, some fighters, they go and do ayahuasca and they come back and they're not kumbaya. Yeah, they say that happened to Deontay. [2:13:40] Deontay Wilder went and did ayahuasca. Oh, did he really? And he came back and just... [2:13:44] It's a little too peaceful. Interesting. It's hard to say, though. Was that before or after the Tyson Fury fight? After. [2:13:49] So that's the problem. It's like we might be drawing a fake correlation there because those Tyson Fury fights were fucking brutal. Yeah. They were brutal. [2:13:57] I feel like speaking of belief, right, he had an identity that was bulletproof, that was unbreakable. And I watch all the excuses. [2:14:05] Yeah. Deontay, no offense. Yeah, no offense. No offense, but his excuses were kind of crazy. Yeah, I think they're just a byproduct of like he believes he was unbeatable. So he had to come up with something to tell the story about how he lost for himself. I don't even think it was malicious. I think he was trying to cope with what is this reality now. Yeah. Yeah. [2:14:22] Well, what he was was a spectacular puncher who wasn't a real fluid and movement-based boxer, right? He wasn't a guy like Usyk. Usyk is the most fluid, movement-based boxer the heavyweight division has seen since Muhammad Ali, right? So what he was was what Teddy Atlas calls the eraser. Like all the mistakes he made, it was one right hand and they were erased. He's the most spectacular one-punch knockout artist in the history of the sport.

[2:14:52] I think. I mean, his powers. And not a big guy. Not in comparison. He fought Tyson Fury the first time. He told me he was 209. That's crazy. And flatlined him in like, what, the 11th round? Oh, the 12th, right? Dropped him in the 12th. Yeah, I think like a minute left or something. But that 12th round changed the course of the rematches because Tyson Fury realized that if he goes after Deontay and he gets him on his back foot, he doesn't fight as well. [2:15:15] And so then he figured it out and he just took it to him. And then he took it to him in the second fight and took it to him in the third fight. [2:15:20] But yeah, it's hard when you hear a guy like that make excuses. [2:15:24] You understand you do more than anybody the destruction of the belief system and how difficult it is for fighters to manage that. [2:15:31] Yeah. But if you do the work to rebuild it afterwards, you're stronger. Right. But you have to do the work. Right. And for a lot of guys, again, they don't. [2:15:39] totally know where to start. Like say if they have a camp and inside their camp they have a trainer, they have the strength and conditioning guy, they have, you know, different coaches for different aspects of their whatever they're doing, whether it's a stretch coach or a boxing coach or, you know, whatever it is. But they don't have a mental guy, you know, they don't have someone who works with you and really make sure that your mind has the tools to manage itself out of there and they don't know where to start. [2:16:04] Like where do you, if you're a guy and you're training, [2:16:07] you know, let's any, any contender. And then he gets knocked out and he comes back from that knockout and you're rebuilding them, but he's got all these confidence issues. Now, like where do you even look? Like, if you like, I got to help this guy get back on track mentally, get him back to where he was for it. Like he got caught. It happens. But,

[2:16:23] He's still an amazing boxer, and he's just got to recover from this, and he can still get back on the horse and still be a world champion. But where do they even start? If they don't know you, where do they start? Well, I think they start by going through the process of just feeling into it. And it's always diving into where you don't want to go, right? It's okay. What are the insecurities coming up now? What are the fears coming up? What are the doubts? Usually we try to stay in our head and escape that. It's about going into it, feeling, feeling, feeling into it, and then seeing what comes up there. [2:16:53] even like writing it down and just bring it into awareness. Once you have awareness of it, then you can actually do something. Then you can manage it. Yes. Yeah. So this book, how long does it take you to write it? [2:17:05] Like six months. The success code. It was a year, but with the high performance playbook. [2:17:10] for [2:17:12] eliminating mental barriers and scaling your career relationships and health. So did you think about like different approaches to like different kinds of occupations and different kinds of ways people are living their life and. [2:17:25] How it applies. So the first half of the book is my story. It's kind of like I'm trying to build rapport. So I tell people this is how I learned all this stuff. This is how it worked for me. These are my client stories. So by the end of the first part, you're either like this guy's full of shit or I believe you. [2:17:39] And then the playbook starts. And it is something that anyone can use because it's simple stuff. Like it starts with like grade the different areas of your life from one to ten. [2:17:48] And then we're looking at closing the gap. [2:17:51] in each area. [2:17:52] My career is at four. [2:17:53] I want it to be a 10. Okay.

[2:17:55] Let's get the low-hanging fruit of, like, what are some of the things you need to stop doing? That vodka. All right, the vodka. Let's cut that out, right? Those three glasses in the morning. Stop. [2:18:04] Yeah. And just going through that auditing system of understanding what's holding you back, what are you more conscientious about. And then I start getting into the training for the mind later on. This system, writing this stuff down and having these numbers, is this something that you invented? Is this something you learned? Yeah, something I invented. Yeah. Yeah. So how did you come to that conclusion that that's how you should do it? [2:18:28] Works. [2:18:29] Yeah. [2:18:29] just works works for you works for clients clients yeah [2:18:33] So when you first started doing it, was it sort of like – [2:18:37] What's the best way to mentally manage this situation for this person? Just trying to solve their problems. That's all I'm trying to do, just being really creative with my problem solving. And so over the years, I just picked up better tools. I've gotten better at practicing things to be able to solve problems better. I wanted to be full-time at this at 22 years old. [2:18:55] It wasn't going to happen. I just didn't have the experience. I didn't have enough tools. That's so young to want to help other people. You know? Most people at 22 are trying to help themselves. Yeah. It just worked for me so much. [2:19:07] And it transformed my life so much that I was like, well, this is what I'm supposed to do. [2:19:11] I want to help other people with this. [2:19:13] Interesting. So how did it transform your life? What were the big benefits? [2:19:18] Where do I begin? I would say it started just with [2:19:22] Coming back the next season and playing football, I went from riding the bench to becoming a starter to being one of the best players on our team.

[2:19:27] So it helped me with football first. I was like, "All right, cool." That helped. Then I started to get actually confidence from being able to help other people, which I didn't have before. I was never something... Because football, I was like, "Okay, I wasn't great at it." [2:19:41] Once I learned the skill, I actually started to build confidence and just learned to manage my own state. [2:19:47] my anxiety my performance anxiety and just starting to feel confident so for the first [2:19:52] 10 years or so by knowing about this, probably for [2:19:55] more like nine years, I was mostly using more elementary meditation techniques, some hypnosis, some NLP. It wasn't until... [2:20:04] I'd say about [2:20:06] seven years ago that I started going deep into the beliefs and that transformed my life in a major way. I mean one thing I did recently was I had hypothyroidism and I was able to completely heal that naturally. How did you do that? [2:20:18] change in all the the underwriting beliefs and then everything right everything I do with any client is [2:20:23] It's the same thing I'm gonna do for me, it's holistic. So of course, I went through a huge gut cleanse, right? [2:20:28] because the gut is everything. It's the foundation. So, [2:20:31] Did a lot of fasting, elimination diet, cutting out almost all foods except for a few. Boiled chicken, boiled carrots, coconut oil, started slowly. [2:20:41] noticing how I felt as I started to [2:20:44] increase the portion and start to bring other foods in i did red light therapy there's some good red light therapy research out there for the thyroid if you just put it on that is a study that showed that people were able to cut their medication in half just by using the the infrared right whoa light therapy yeah it's good for a ton of things great for the gut so i just started synchronicity right i met this lady on the beach in miami beach who studies this stuff red light therapy specifically for the gut and i was like well what about the thyroid

[2:21:10] And she's like, yeah, of course it'll help. It's light. Light heals everything. So I just started researching it. So it was all, I did a lot of things. I cut out caffeine this year. [2:21:18] That was a big thing that I don't think caffeine creates hypothyroidism. But for me, when I turned on that gene, right, epigenetics, I turned on the gene for I didn't have to have this. But like my mom has my brother has it. And so I had the gene and I put it on through stress, through depression. [2:21:32] excessive caffeine and just a very stressful life in my mid-20s. So the way he turned off was turn off the things that are associated with that stress response. So pulling out the caffeine [2:21:43] just put me more on the parasympathetic nervous system, allowed me to relax more. And then, yeah, all this stuff. And just noticing the fears come up [2:21:51] When I pull away the things I like, right, the comfort of the food, the comfort of the caffeine, just all my things that I like, all the comfort and just seeing the fears that came out through that and just recoding it, recoding it. And this is going to sound very woo-woo, but I was taking the medication because, you know, if you ask a doctor, they tell you you have to take this medication for the rest of your life. Right. And they get mad that. [2:22:12] you even ask about what an alternative is. Like I've had doctors be like, [2:22:16] Be grateful. You just have to take a pill. [2:22:18] Like, get out of here. But there was actually an experience I had two years ago where a doctor wouldn't give me my medication, even though my blood didn't change. He said, oh, you're going to have to come back in here every three months. I want to monitor it. He tried to put me on, like, a subscription plan to pay more money just to keep getting it. And it was, like, flipped something to me. I was like, I'm not doing this anymore. Wow. I'm going to find a way to get off this medication. This is something that RFK Jr. is trying to stop, is financial incentives. The gatekeeper of this medication.

[2:22:48] Prescribed things and then gatekeeping, whether or not you can get useful medications. Kind of crazy. Yeah. But yeah. So I just had – I did all these things very holistically, right? Mm-hmm. [2:23:01] I'm doing Sodom, doing all these things. [2:23:03] And then just feeling into my body one day, it was just like intuition just told me, it was like, hey, you're done. You don't need it anymore. Wow. And so what I did, of course, I asked ChatGPT. I was like, I can't just stop taking it. What did ChatGPT say? It said take one day on, one day off. I did that. By the third day of taking it again, my body rejected it. I felt... [2:23:23] terrible. I felt like a depletion of energy. It's just three days. [2:23:26] The third day of not taking it. Really? The third day of taking it. [2:23:30] Wow. So I took it. I didn't take it. And the day I took it again, my body rejected it. And I was like, I get it. I'm done. I haven't touched it since. That's crazy. [2:23:39] But I think there's a lot of things like that. Well, I wonder if that study that shows that visualization increases physical strength. [2:23:46] I really wonder... [2:23:49] It's... [2:23:50] If you have the ability to... [2:23:53] Accentuate Healing... [2:23:54] If you just concentrate, like if you get an injury and the injury is going to heal, but if concentrating on that injury helps it heal more. Oh. But how many people actually do that, right? How many people actually like really visualize something? Well, even just the placebo effect of thinking you got it. So there's a study, I think it was done on ACL surgeries. It could be meniscus. It was one of these knee surgeries where they took two groups. They give one group, the surgery, the other group, they just cut their knee open and then sewed it right back up.

[2:24:22] Same results. [2:24:23] over whatever the period of time was. Wait a minute, it can't be ACL surgery, because ACL is a stabilizing ligament. It was one of these knee surgeries. Yeah. [2:24:32] They had the same results. That doesn't make sense. That seems a little wacky because ACLs are – that's the ligament in the center that keeps it from moving side to side and up and down. Maybe it was meniscus. Maybe. That makes more sense. [2:24:48] Yeah. Meniscus surgeries are rough because when they take it out, then you have this hole there. You have like a gap missing depending on how much you take out. And some guys get a bunch of their meniscus taken out. Guys even get like artificial meniscus put in or donor meniscus, you know. [2:25:04] I mean, was that book? I think visualization is a factor. [2:25:08] And belief. Yeah. If you – you're not going to regrow your ACL though with your brain. No. I mean if it's not connected, get that shit fixed. Yeah. [2:25:16] But- [2:25:16] Because I know a lot of guys who didn't, and then eventually they did. I know a lot of guys have got their ACL blown out, and they just tried to rehab it. But it kept grinding, so it's always slipping out. They're always tearing their meniscus more. It's like, fuck, dude, just get it fixed. Get it fixed. Six months later, you'll be back on the mats. Get your ACL fixed. [2:25:34] yeah get your acl fixed yeah no it's wild though i mean if you start going down this rabbit hole of seeing like how many placebo studies have been done that's why it's so hard to find drugs that actually work okay this is weird i think this is okay what does it say uh 180 patients osteoarthritis knee surgery [2:25:49] were randomly assigned to receive arthroscopic

[2:25:53] Debridement? Debridement, arthroscopic lavage, or placebo surgery. Patients in a placebo group received skin incisions and underwent a similar debridement without insertion of the arthroscope. Patients and assessors of the outcome were blinded to the treatment group. Assignment outcomes were assessed at multiple points over a 24-month period with the use of five self-reported scores, [2:26:23] One objective test of walking and stair climbing, a total of 165 patients completed the trial. Results, at no point did either of the intervention groups report less pain or better function than the placebo group. [2:26:37] Interesting. [2:26:39] But this is just like [2:26:41] I always wonder, like... [2:26:43] How bad was their injury? What are we talking about? How many people were there? How many people were in this group? 165 patients? Conclusions in this controlled trial involving patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, the outcomes after arthroscopic lavage or arthroscopic debridement were no better than those after a placebo procedure. Okay. [2:27:05] That's kind of nuts, man. And I think like it's weird how we talk about the placebo that way. It's kind of like diminishing. It's like, yeah, look, it didn't work. But that's not what happened. The people believe they got the surgery. Right. That's the fucked up part about placebo effects. It's measurable. The benefits are measurable. Those people did. [2:27:22] They did heal. They did have less pain. Yeah, but the question is, would they have healed anyway without it?

[2:27:29] I don't know. Or is it because they believe that they were healed? Right. [2:27:32] that it relaxed them and then they were thinking, okay, it's healing now. I got the surgery. It's on the right track. It's getting better now. And maybe if they had that mindset, if they could figure out a way to make that mindset without the surgery, they could just do it. [2:27:45] Yeah, belief. [2:27:47] Believe. All right, dude. The success code. Did you have an audible or an audio version of this? Yeah, it's on Spotify. It's audible. Did you read it? [2:27:55] I did read it. Nice. It's me. I love when authors read their own stuff and a bunch of people sing you praises in the back of the book. You can look up my name because I rebranded it and I haven't changed the name on Spotify. So just look up Brand Eps and you'll find the book. What do you mean you rebranded the book? Yeah. What's it called on Spotify? Program to Fail. Okay. We'll let people know. Program to Fail on Audible. Okay. Success Code on Everett. All right. Beautiful. Thanks, brother. It was fun. Thank you, brother. All right. Bye, everybody. [2:28:25] Thank you. [2:28:38] This episode is brought to you by the Farmer's Dog. Here's a fun fact. Research shows that dogs who maintain a healthy weight can live up to two and a half years longer on average than dogs who are overweight. [2:28:49] Isn't that wild and also kind of obvious at the same time? So why is feeding vague scoops of ultra-processed kibble still the status quo for most dog owners? Healthy alternatives exist, and trust me, I know.

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