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The Fit Perception
The Fit Perception
What If You Try??
What if the secret to a fulfilling life wasn't about adhering to New Year's resolutions but about embracing change whenever it's needed? Join T as he candidly discuss skepticism about New Year's traditions and the importance of appreciating the steady joys of family and fulfilling work.
T also tackles the confusion rampant in the fitness industry due to misinformation from influencers promoting unproven products. Emphasizing the basics—like good nutrition, exercise, and sleep— he advocates for a straightforward approach to health and fitness. There's also a nod to the impact of conspiracy theories on societal thinking, encouraging a balance between healthy skepticism and falling prey to misinformation. Ultimately, let's celebrate the power of effort and trying, no matter the outcome, reinforcing that everyone is powerful just by existing. Your support is invaluable, and I welcome your suggestions as we venture into future episodes.
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Oh, what is up? My familia man? It's been like, uh, probably like two months, I think, maybe longer. Oh, sorry, my headphones were hecka loud. Anyway, yeah, it's been a while Fam. Happy new year, happy 2025. This is crazy Y'all. It's been a while Fam. Happy new year, happy 2025. This is crazy Y'all. It's been a couple months, not going to lie.
Speaker 1:The end of the year was rough, end of the year was kind of tough, and I know I'm definitely not the only one that felt that way. But I'm just going to be honest. You know how we do on here. We're honest. It was tough, went through some thangs, um, but honestly, life's good, life's great.
Speaker 1:Um, got to keep perspective. You know, uh, I've got a home, got a beautiful family. Uh, have a great job. I love what I do, um, and uh, yeah, I can't complain. Um, oh, man, I, there's so much to talk about that I don't even. Usually I just kind of shoot from the hip and I have no idea where it's going to go. You know, um, but uh, that's mostly because I just make stuff up as we go through. But now I have so much to talk about, I'm going to have to make this one kind of short, I think, and then do a little bit longer one and drop it on next Monday, because I really do like I've been feeling in my gut that I need to get back on the pot. I need to keep it more consistent, and I know I always say that and it's fine. I feel like it's.
Speaker 1:I don't know if anybody's ever tried to do a podcast. It's very, very difficult, like it's really, really hard, and I know there's a bajillion podcasts out there. So I do appreciate you listening to this one. But it's tough, fam, to get on and talk for, you know, an hour. Usually I get on. I'm like I have no idea how I'm going to get to an hour. And then I get to an hour I'm like, oh my gosh, thomas shut up already. Um, but anyway, so going into this new year, I just want to like okay, so I don't do resolutions, that's not my thing, um, and I don't. I don't have anything against them, necessarily. I don't hold it against anybody that has them. I think they can be very beneficial. They're just not beneficial to me. Um, you know some people thrive off of new year's resolutions and hooray for them. I love that. I just I find it kind of dumb that we would wait.
Speaker 1:I was having this conversation with my wife on New Year's Eve. Jj went to bed. It was just me and her and I was like, do we really have to stay up till midnight? I want to sleep. And she's like no, it's tradition. We got to stay up till midnight and I'm not trying to mock my wife, she did not sound like that, but she loves tradition. She did not sound like that, but you know she loves tradition, she loves parties. We didn't have a party. She wasn't feeling very good, but we had to stay up and kiss on New Year's Eve, you know, ringing the new year, and that's fine, that's fine. I find it so stupid, but it's all good.
Speaker 1:And I was sitting there with my wife and we're sitting there watching the the New Year's Eve in New York, who are like the um big celebrations, and and I was just like hey, we're all just collectively dumb, aren't we? And she's like what? And I was like, when the clock strikes midnight, literally nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. It went from 12 o'clock to 12.01. That's it, that's all. And we're all just like it's a new year, new me. It's like what Dude? Where was this energy? I don't know A day ago, how come you just like were a piece of garbage for the last week and then all of a sudden, just new year, new me, like I don't know, it's so like we've just collectively been like, hey, guess what? We're gonna pretend that tomorrow the whole world's gonna change and it's just not going to. Oh, I just find humans very, very strange beings. I'll just that. We're just weird. We're just weird that because we've collectively said that this calendar is how we're going to live our lives, and every and every time it's january 1st we're just going to be completely different people and act like the last. Whatever we went through just didn't exist and, because we want it, we're just going to be new. And then we wake up with a hangover and it's like, and I'm back to my old self, I don't know if you're not going to make a change on September the 4th, because you want to and you just feel like you need to be different, guess what? You're not gonna make that change on January 1st. It's not a magical thing that happens. That's my biggest frustration. If you're like I'm just.
Speaker 1:I'm the type of person that when I want to do something, I'm gonna do it immediately and does it drive my wife crazy? Yes, it drives her bonkers because it makes me do a lot of dumb things sometimes where I'm just like, oh, that's a good idea, bam, and I go for it. Like for the marathon, for example, I was like you know what? I've never run one, I'm going to do it. Oh, when, next month. That's really dumb choice. Like it was a lot of money. I spent so much money preparing for this thing. In four weeks it just like. But again, at the same time, it was really cool to be able to say I've run a marathon and I did it on. Just hey, I'm going to do it now, bam.
Speaker 1:And that's just how I view life. I'm like, oh, if I want to make a change, why the heck would I wait till January 1st? That makes zero sense in my brain. If I won't do it now, I'm for sure not going to do it January 1st, cause guess what? It's the same as doing it right now. So that's why I don't like resolutions. That's that's why, if you're not going to do it now, you probably won't do it then. Um, so, and and I know that they can be very good and people prep and they have vision boards and they get planners and they're like, oh, I'm going to plan out this whole thing and that's great If you actually do it. If you're going to fill out the planner and you're going to have those, those big goals and those sub goals and those monthly goals and those weekly goals, great, do it. I'm all for that. That's just not how I'm wired. I just that's not how my brain works. That's not how I I think about life. I I'm very now. I'm going to do it now.
Speaker 1:Um, which, speaking of, let's talk about this new year. So I feel like, you know, when you just have, like this gut feeling and you're not quite sure where it's going to lead and you're kind of nervous about it, yeah, that's the sitch. I mean, that's the sitch I'm in fam where I feel like, at the end of 2025, and it doesn't really my gut isn't saying like, oh, the world is going to change or like the political landscape is going to lead to crazy which it probably will, but I just am like I as a person, as a personal thing, I have this gut feeling that I'm going to have an insane year, and I've said that in the past because I wanted it to be true and I had like plans to make it true and then none of it happened, which is fine. Plans go awry, um, and I totally accept that and I love that about life, but for some reason, I feel like 2025, your boy is going to be a different human by the end of it, and I think there's a couple reasons. This is the year that I and you're hearing it first and I could get fired for this. It's fine.
Speaker 1:I have to be done with Barry's Houston. That sounds so weird. I haven't said that out loud to people, so keep that on the down low. If you're a Barry's client, ah, um, yeah, I, I, I can't see myself teaching there all the way through 2025. For a bunch of different reasons.
Speaker 1:Um, like I was just looking at what I'm doing with my life. You know like a lot of reflection over the last few months, um, a lot of personal, uh, not issues, but a lot of personal challenges, um, mentally, emotionally, uh, uh I don't even know if you want to say socially, but just a lot of personal things that happened and I realized like, okay, like I absolutely love what I do. I love it. I love it so much and it's not hard for me to go to work because it's so enjoyable and I, I enjoy the people I'm with, I enjoy the conversations, I love what I'm, I'm, I get to do, and, uh, but I can't do it forever. Right, like, do what I like to, yeah, but is it actually physically possible for me to do? Absolutely not. So I was like at this realization of like, oh, if I, if I'm having that realization, I need to take the steps right now to change it. Um, so, yeah, I, this is the year I have to be done at Barry's Houston and that shouldn't come to a surprise for most people that actually know me on a personal level.
Speaker 1:Um, there's a bunch of things that have come up, like, uh, there's an opportunity, they're going to open a Barry's in Salt Lake city which would be like a very, very close to my family, like like 15 minutes away from my brother and an hour away from my parents, and you know, jj would be able to be with his cousins more, and it was such a blast to see him with his cousins in Utah over Christmas break. We went there and he was just loving being with his cousins. It was beautiful to see. Beautiful to see made my heart melt. But also moving there would just prolong the inevitable, which is I can't teach forever like that. Like I get up at four o'clock every single morning to go train people and that's just not sustainable as a human being. Like I'll get up early, I like getting up early, but getting up early and yelling at people and jumping around and having that much, like I just physically and emotionally cannot do that forever. So, um, would it be great to move back to Utah. Absolutely, it'd be so much fun.
Speaker 1:And I'm not saying I won't, I'm not saying I can't, but it's just another procrastination. And, as I said at the beginning of this, I'm not one for procrastinating, I'm one to just freaking, get things done. Why waste time? So that's kind of my attitude, going into this, and I don't necessarily know what that means. That's the scary part. I know that there's going to be some massive changes that happen and I'm not entirely in control of that, which is freaking me out. But I do know that I'm going to try to stay more consistent with this because it kind of grounds me where I get to just vomit my words into your ear and that's fine and it's cool and I love you for that, um, but anyway. So, just going into the year, I hope, I hope that you have changes.
Speaker 1:I really do Like cause they're obviously human beings don't like to change. We don't like change. It's uncomfortable, but at the same time it's like, legitimately, the thing that makes life beautiful, like if you stay the same, your life's really depressing. You want to change, you want to even and this is the weird thing Like I've had conversations with people that are like change is great as long as it's like forward and as long as you're improving. Well, not always. Maybe you don't have to take these massive steps forward. Maybe it's a step to the side, maybe it's just different. It doesn't always necessarily have to be these massive leaps Like maybe it's just something different, not necessarily way better, just different. That's a change and it's still fine, it's still positive. You don't have to have these massive increases and these huge steps forward. Maybe you just step to the side and do something different and it just starts you on a different path. But as long as there's change, life is fun, life is exciting, life is different, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Um, anyway, there's been so much that's been going on. I don't want to just bore you with my personal life, but, um, there's so much that's been going on. Obviously, that's been like hell of frustrating as far as, like socially and and all of these kind of gross cultural things that are happening, which I don't really want to talk about because it makes me angry and it makes me frustrated and I don't want that to be what people take away from this. I want this to be happy, I want this to be positive, I want this to be motivational. So we're going to stay away from those subjects for now. Maybe we'll get into it next time, but let's see. Oh oh, oh okay. So you know how I hate social media Like I really really do and I'm getting more aggressive about talking about it. Where I just I don't think it's good, I hope it freaking, implodes on itself, I hope that it goes away and I'll argue with people about it forever, forever, cause you'll never be able to show me anything that outweigh like positive, that outweighs the negatives that come from it.
Speaker 1:So, um, but that being said, there was a guy who, like, if you, you want, if you want motivation, if you want some inspirational things on social media which I'm trying to, so I can actually use it as a good tool and, like promote myself and build businesses or whatever, because it is kind of a necessary evil as far as the business world is concerned, very evil as far as the business world is concerned, um, but if you want motivation, dude, there's a guy on social media named um Ned Brockman. Dude is a wild Aussie boy. Um, like, this guy just does stuff to do stuff, like he's awesome, um, anyway. So he did this thing where he was like I'm going to run a thousand miles, I want to see how long it takes me to run a thousand miles. One thousand, not in a year, not as like, oh hey, I'm going to run 1,000 miles this year. No, he said, how fast can I run 1,000 miles? I was like, oh hey, t, your marathon's cute, shut up about it.
Speaker 1:This dude wanted to run 1,000 miles, thousand miles, um, and he did it to raise money for homeless people in Australia. Like there's, there's so many different ways to raise money. And he was like I'm going to, I'm going to run a thousand miles and have people pay to be a part of the experience. Like what, dude? That's insane. And, by the way, he ran it in 12 days and 13 hours, so almost two weeks, which is bonkers, bonkers, bonkers. He would run all day taking breaks when he needed to changing his shoes, changing his bloody socks, changing his bloody shorts Like when you run that much you chafe so hard and so he would be. He would get done and you just plow food and get calories back in and rest for a little bit and and massage and like all this stuff. But it took him 12 days and 13 hours to run a thousand miles and he raised so much money he made. He raised like $2 million for for homeless people and then just gave it away.
Speaker 1:Like the dude is just next level of live my life how I want to live my life. Like it's so inspirational. Oh, so if you want like some positive, just fun people to follow, go follow him. He's fantastic, he's amazing and it and it and it's. It shows me that there's like good people on Instagram and social media that aren't trying. They don't really have an agenda. They don't have like. He obviously has sponsors. He has people that pay him a lot of money to wear their stuff and promote their stuff and he does. But it's like he's genuinely like like hey man, I wear these shoes every single day. Like I ran a thousand miles in these shoes, like I love them and yes, they're paying me money, so go buy them. Like he's he doesn't hide anything. Like he's just like super, super cool.
Speaker 1:Um, and I it got me thinking. I was like you know what? Like those are the people, those are the only people that should get money on social media. Like I'm so frustrated and if you're a client of mine, you've heard me talk about this so many times and I apologize but like there's all this fitness. Like social media is going to absolutely either destroy the fitness industry or make it the biggest industry in the world. Um, because you have these people that get online. Like I got a.
Speaker 1:I got a question the other day from a client and I know she listens to the show, so I'm not going to say her name but I got a question from a client the other day. She messaged me. She's like, hey, have you ever heard of athletic greens? And? And should I use them? Are they useful? Yes or no, maybe? And I messaged back and I was like, uh, yes, I've heard of them, I've tried them and no, you don't need to use them, because here's the thing they promote it like every other supplement and every other fitness concept, where they're like this is the greatest thing that you are not doing and it's going to change your entire life.
Speaker 1:You're going to wake up with the most energy you've ever felt. You're going to feel like you're 15 years old. All you have to do is drink this once a day in the morning and you are going to be a new person by the end of 2025. And it's like hey man, no, I'm not, no, I'm effing. Not 10 minutes to read up on it. You'd go oh, all this is is a way for these people to make money off of my ignorance and off of what I don't know, because greens have been proven to not do anything.
Speaker 1:If you're eating healthy and working out like you're supposed to, you're getting the micronutrients that you need from the food you're eating. And here's the crazy thing. So if you're already eating well and you're already exercising well and you're already sleeping well, guess what? You don't need most of the things that they promote, right? You're pretty healthy. Now, if you're not doing those things, if you're not eating healthy, if you're not exercising, if you're not sleeping well, guess what?
Speaker 1:Eating a green drink isn't going to change that. The greens aren't going to magically make you smaller, make you stronger. It's not going to solve your diet garbage. It's not going to magically pretend like you're exercising more. It's not going to magically make you sleep better. Like that's, that's not what they do. Sure, they give you micronutrients Great, if you're eating well, you don't need those. You're already getting them from the good food. And yet people are like food. And yet people are like oh, it's green, it's healthy, and a fitness person who looks really shredded told me to drink it. So I'm going to spend copious amounts of money and nothing is going to change.
Speaker 1:Like I'm so over the bullshit of like getting on there and it's like these studies show. Hey man, what studies? You haven't done the studies. All you're doing is regurgitating half of a paragraph that supported you making money by supporting this product. You didn't actually go through the 65 pages of the study. Stop saying these studies show when you haven't looked at the studies. Like it's so crazy and so easy to get away with that's.
Speaker 1:The problem is that nobody comes and checks them. Well, some people do like um lane, uh lane, what's his handle on Instagram? Is Biolane and he's it's his freaking mission to destroy people that are like science says these studies show. He's like what studies, dude? And then he pulls up real studies and he goes through all the studies with you like, oh wow, I'm dumb, but like that's that's what is going to absolutely destroy the fitness industry.
Speaker 1:Because when you have those things, you have these fitness influencers who are doing the three things that actually make you fit and healthy eating healthy, exercising a lot and sleeping a lot those are the three keys that make you healthy, and yet they get on like that's what's making them fit and healthy. And then they get on these, promote these things that aren't necessarily what's getting them healthy. You have people that are ignorant, that don't know what's going on, and they start buying all these supplements and they start giving into these weird trends and and then they nothing changes and they get frustrated and then they don't want to do fitness anymore and it ruins the taste of like actually being fit. So it's so frustrating working in the fitness industry to see that happen and understand that, like all these people that are promoting this are just making money and not actually helping anyone. It's so frustrating, um, and so it's going to absolutely destroy the fitness industry or it's going to get enough people pissed off where they start talking to people who actually know what they're doing and save the fitness industry. Um, but, like, it's just like if you see somebody that are that's like studies show, science shows, and then they don't go through all of the studies, don't trust them. It's a load of bullshit, um, and it's, and it's I don't know, it's so confusing, it's so confusing for a lot of people, um, but I guess I guess that's why I do what I do, like I want.
Speaker 1:My goal in life is to show people that that being healthy and being fit isn't just for fitness people, it's not just a trend, it's literally for every human on the earth. Like, every single person has a body and it should be a healthy machine. It should be, and it doesn't mean that you need to chase six-pack abs. It doesn't mean that you need to Chase medals and be an athlete. No, no, no, that's not what I'm saying at all. But your body should work properly, right, like your body should function well, and because you get one of them, just you get one shot, and everybody has issues and everybody has problems and everybody has somebodies that don't work very well, based on genetics, and some people have cancers that come in and some people have diseases and that's part of biology, that's part of being a human, and some people get really screwed over and it makes me sad. And some people don't have any issues and that's great for them.
Speaker 1:But regardless, you should try to keep yours as healthy as possible and it doesn't really take a whole lot of nitty gritty, science, perfection, to do that. Like we're in a day and age where everything is wrong with food and everything is wrong with how to sleep and what to sleep on and the right pillow and the right angle, and don't sleep on your side, sleep on your back, and then, if you sleep on your back too long, you're going to have this problem and you're going to have spinal problems. So you need to get a better mattress and then you need to make sure that you're having mouth strips so that your nose is breathing and not your mouth, because that can lead to tonsils problems and vocal problems and sleep apnea. And so then you need to get some strips for your nose to widen your nostrils when you breathe, and then you need to make sure that you're having a cold shower in the morning and then, after you have your cold shower, that you're having a cold shower in the morning and then when you, after you have your cold shower, that you have caffeine after an hour and a half, after you wake up, after you've had sun in your eyeballs, and then make sure that your circadian rhythm is on point, do you get how effing confusing that is? And I haven't even covered a fricking 0.975% of everything that you have to do to be healthy. It's crazy. So like.
Speaker 1:I just want people to understand that it's not hard, it really isn't. It's like take it from a logical perspective move your body, eat pretty healthy and sleep healthy. Do that, do that. And people are like but how? Don't ask me how. Move your body, sleep better, sleep more and don't eat garbage. There you go. Go with your gut. Go with your gut, go with logic. If you're questioning like I wonder how bad this is for me, it's bad for you. Don't eat it. There you go. Problem solved Anyway. So that's what I want to really really do? Is like I don't know if that's what this podcast is for. I don't know if that's what I want to really really do. Is like I don't know if that's what this podcast is for, I don't know if that's what I'm supposed to do with my life, but just show people that it's not complicated.
Speaker 1:Stop listening to all these fitness influencers. Go actually talk to someone who's healthy and is is not an extreme person, like isn't, isn't promoting extremism is what I'm saying. Anyway, um, I don't know. I just wish I I wish there was more critical thinking and less like just taking people's advice based off of what they look like and how loud they are. Like, actually go talk to a physical human being if you have questions, instead of just like, well, this person said it on social media, hey, okay, so don't believe them. Then that's what you should do Don't believe them, first and foremost, and then go talk to somebody. Because I wonder, I wonder, if you talk to these fitness influencers that are literally just content creators. They don't have PhDs, they don't have any sort of background in studying what they're doing. They just are genetically gifted and decided to make a lot of money by showing how they exercise. That's great. Make money, do your thing, but don't pretend like you know stuff, like, and I I never professed to know even slightly a fraction of as much as I should about fitness.
Speaker 1:I never profess that ever. Like, I tell people I don't know all the time, but I love learning. So I know a lot of random stuff about a lot of things about fitness. I know a lot of stuff about diet. I know a lot of stuff about exercise. I know a lot of stuff about recovery techniques and stuff, just because I love reading about it, I love listening to it, I love learning new things about it. But I'm not an expert. I don't profess that, I don't say that out loud, I don't say that on social media, I don't promote that at all. But I probably know a lot more than most fitness quote-unquote influencers because I actually go study stuff.
Speaker 1:So if you have questions, talk to me. If I don't know the answer, I'm going to find it out and I'm going to actually want to know. Anyway, so let's move on. Yeah, let's move on, because I could talk about this forever and it's kind of frustrating. So no more. Um, what else is going on? Um, a lot of political things, so I don't want to get into that. Maybe later. Um, a lot of political things, so I don't want to get into that, maybe later.
Speaker 1:But okay, so going into the new year, going into studying yourself and reflecting on yourself, because I think that's really important, and one thing that keeps being brought up in my circle of friends and associates, I guess, is the concept of the phrase trusting the process, the process. And there's a quote that I heard on a podcast of Chris Williamson, who he's great. If you don't, if you've never, listened to his podcast, go listen to his podcast. He's fantastic, really good interviewer, very entertaining, very handsome fellow Um, and he was interviewing a guy I want to say his name was Ryan, oh blast, I don't remember his last name, anyway, put in like Chris Williamson, ryan, and I'm sure it'll come up.
Speaker 1:But this guy was saying like, yes, trust the process, no-transcript. Like, stop saying like, oh, just trust the process and it'll continue. If it's not working, don't trust that process. Like, if you have legit evidence that this process is working and that's it's not just like fitness related, it's life related, it's business related. If you keep doing the same thing over and over and over again and there's no result, obviously we know that little cliche quote. That's the definition of insanity You're not trusting the process anymore, you're lying to yourself. And so he was talking about like, how we use like literally we use faith and hope, like we just blindly hope that this is going to work and that can last a while, but after a certain amount of time you need to look back at the process and go okay, do I have any evidence that this process quote unquote is working? And if it's not, don't trust the process. Change the process. And that's obviously very easy to kind of like talk about from a fitness sense. If you're on a diet plan and if you're on a fitness like a workout regimen, and it's not working after X amount of time three months, six months, a year, whatever don't trust that process. Change it. Figure out something new, figure out what needs to be done different so that you can actually trust the process. And the same thing goes for for these. And the same thing goes for these like, what are they called?
Speaker 1:When you look in the positive affirmations, the affirmations I think this was an episode with Isaiah. If you go back in previous episodes I don't know if it was the first one or the second one with Isaiah where he talked about these affirmations that we give ourselves. You know like we're told, like get up in the morning, give yourself positive affirmations here yes, do that. But make sure they're grounded in reality. Make sure that they're actual affirmations, not just hopes, things that you actually believe, where you can prove. Like, if you just go in and say in the mirror, I'm strong, I'm powerful, and you don't have anything to show that you were strong or that you were powerful, it's going to have an opposite effect on your brain, because you know that you're lying, and then you start lying to yourself more and more, and that's not good, right.
Speaker 1:So when you give yourself positive affirmations, those should be like, grounded in things that actually affirm it, where you go back to a time of like oh, that's when I was strong, that's when I did something very powerful. Those are the things that you need to rely on. So, like, when you're like I'm all for positive talk and I'm all for hyping yourself up. I do it all the time often, but every time I do that, I try to remember a time when I actually was that, so that I'm not lying to myself, I'm not just hoping that this happens, I'm reminding myself that I've done something before, and those are like that's the type of mindset that actually gets you better, that actually that's the type of mindset that actually gets you better, that actually helps you be an legitimately positive, happy person, instead of just getting up in the morning staring yourself in the mirror and going, oh, I'm an ugly, gross piece of garbage, but I'm going to say these affirmations and hope that they work. That's not how that goes. These affirmations and hope that they work that's not how that goes.
Speaker 1:If you want those affirmations to work, you have to, like, actually think about and be real about a time that you were strong and you were powerful. And, whatever the affirmation is, you have to go back to a time and and there's literally nobody in the world that hasn't had something positive happen to them at some point in their life and, yes, there's people that have had more of those and there's some people that have less of those but there's literally nobody that has existed that hasn't had a moment in their life that was positive. Um, and so you have to think about those things if you want those affirmations to actually start to sink in and to change your life. Otherwise, your brain will already know subconsciously that you're lying to yourself and then you won't trust yourself anymore and then you just go down this spiral of depression and stress and anxiety and then you blame it on so many other things when it's just like, hey, man, it's because you've been lying to yourself. Stop that, anyway. So, just like things that I've been thinking about going into this new year, I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to trust processes that don't work, I'm not going to say affirmations that aren't real and I'm just going to live my life with strong belief and and powerful logic and not not overthink things and not get caught up in commotion and things that don't matter and social stuff, like I just like those things are so trivial to me. Um, in the grand scheme of things and the long run, when I look at the end of my life, those things just are a waste of time. So, like that's why I feel like my life is about to go crazy, and in a hopefully a good way, if a bad way, whatever we'll handle it.
Speaker 1:But I'm excited. I'm very, very excited for what this has in store, because I don't really have a set plan. I have goals, but I don't have like a set way of getting there, which makes it way more intimidating and way more scary, but also way more fun. Um, but anyway, I've talked your ear off. Gosh, dang it. I said this is going to be a short one. It's not. You know how we do. It's fine dude. Um, but anyway, let's um. Before I just keep rambling about nonsense, let's get into one of the best parts of the show, which is the devil's advocate. All right, friends. So I have a lot of devil's advocates to choose from, but we're just going to have a fun one.
Speaker 1:So I don't know if I've said this on here before, but I am a massive fan of conspiracies. I love them. I think they're so fun and I think sometimes they're very beneficial actually, I think they're so fun and I think sometimes they're very beneficial actually. But I want to break down whether or not conspiracies are good for society or bad and detrimental to society as a whole, because I find them fascinating. So I think that when it comes to conspiracies, obviously there are so many out there political and social and historical and economical and medical, and the list goes on and on and on and on and on, and on, and on and on, and I think that they're very good for society, just like the mundane routine of how the world works. And these conspiracies just kind of threw a monkey wrench in there and they go whoa, wait what? And anything that causes you to stop and critically think I am a massive fan of. I think it is so beneficial to cause people to critically think about things and you know you can say like, yeah, but it's so dangerous to the people involved, okay, well, as a whole, it's very beneficial.
Speaker 1:Where, where? Take, for example, let's take a fun one where there's there's people that think that the moon landing isn't real right, where they think it's a? A, an inside job, a government inside job that was put on to beat the Russians. It was a cold war. Uh, move, you know to, to prove the supremacy of the United States over everybody else in the technological race, in the space race. Um, and they were, they were going to get to the moon by any means necessary, even if it meant faking it. Um, and you know, you can go through the so much quote unquote evidence of or not moving and how the light came from a certain place where it wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1:If this was the case, and like yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, and that we've never been back, and if we can't do it with the supercomputers we have now, how did they do it back then? And like all of these quote unquote evidences, and you go well, that's so long ago, that's such a waste of time. But what it does is it goes, oh, wow, if, if that's a lie, if that conspiracy happens to be true and I'm not saying yes or no, like I'm not taking a side on the conspiracies, I'm just saying the conspiracy as a whole goes, okay. Well, if they're going to lie to us about that, what else are they willing to do? And if you know anything about me, you know that I hate government control and oversight and I think it's a whole horrendous thing.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we won't get into that, but it makes people stop and think and question behaviors and norms. And well, if, if that's true, what else is true, you know? So it makes people kind of stop what they're doing and just think about other things, which I think is so beneficial because it creates this, this mindset, and not a mindset of distrust. Always is it doesn't always have to be distrust in something you know older lying to us. Okay, well, that's not every conspiracy Like, that's not the case, um, but but the more that you're able to step outside of your own little bubble, your own way of living life and your own way of thinking, it opens up an unending possibility of new directions and new dimensions and new, um ways of thinking and ways of living and and connecting with people and acting as a whole, um, which is beneficial.
Speaker 1:That's, how we've gotten to where we are today is by people that stopped to think about things and then change the normal way of doing things Like um, like take, for example, like I'm sure people that that I don't know, who invented indoor plumbing, praise them forever, though. Um, I should know that I don't, but I should Um, but I'm sure people thought he was, or she was, out of their minds, out of their effing minds. Wait, you want to put an outhouse in your house? You're insane, you know. And those are the type of people that stop and think and challenge and break norms.
Speaker 1:And I think that conspiracies are a wonderful tool to make people break norms and to be different and to challenge a normal quote, unquote way of thinking and acting and behaving. Um, and I think that they're very beneficial, um for the, the whole of society overall, as far as like, overall, as far as like progression and advancements in different areas and connecting with people that you might not normally connect with. So I think, overall, they're very beneficial to think about. Forget about the outcome of the conspiracy and think about just what the conspiracy makes your brain do. That's what I'm saying, because there's a lot of conspiracies themselves that are very dark and gross and and the outcomes of those and the people involved you know very bad. Those and the people involved you know very bad. But, as a whole, what did it make your brain do? Did you think about things from a different light? Did you think about things that you had never thought before? That's beneficial, whether it's positive or negative, as far as like what the conspiracy is about. That's that's not what I'm arguing. What I'm arguing is is it beneficial as a whole to society to cause them to think differently? Yes, are very, very dangerous and detrimental to society as a whole.
Speaker 1:Because there are let's just admit right now there are some conspiracies that are true. There are. There are because they've been found out to be true and they've been published and they've been. You know, um found out and grappled with and destroyed Um, and you can go and look at those and find out what they are. We don't need to talk about them here.
Speaker 1:But there are some conspiracies that have been found to be true, but most of them are not right. Some of them are just flat out lies that have been made up, like, for example, for example, flat earth. We know from so many sources and so much evidence and so much science and studies and advancements so much science and studies and advancements that the earth is definitely not flat. And yet you can go online and find, quote, unquote evidence and massive groups of people that believe that the earth is flat, like truly believe that the earth is flat. Hey, but that's just not real. It doesn't cause you to think very differently about anything, right? You go, oh well, that means we're downgrading. If people believe that, you go, that's just gross. That's like what, dude, how are you denying something that's so blatantly obvious and studied? Great, it made you think. But now you realize that there's crazy people in the world.
Speaker 1:So I think that that that the conspiracies if okay, so conspiracies just lead to more conspiracies, and yes, they can be fun and they can make you challenge your brain and whatever. There's a lot of things that can challenge your brain. Being lied to isn't one of them, where, if there's one conspiracy, then all of a sudden there's 9,000 other conspiracies. There's not a chance in the world that all of them are true. Like that's just not it. And so when you allow for those conspiracies to happen. I just wish there was a way for it not to be conspiracy.
Speaker 1:If it's true, that's what I wish, that that, if it, if it was real and true that it wasn't a conspiracy, it just came out I was like, nope, this is, these are the, this is the science, um, but that's not how that works. And so you're in a hard spot where it's like, yeah, okay, so that one might be a little bit true. And now we have people that are running around saying the earth is flat, no, but, but no, and obviously like, okay, they're not harming people, they're not going and shooting anybody because the earth is flat, but it's still like, oh, if you're going to believe that, you're going to believe a lot of other things that aren't true. It makes me sad.
Speaker 1:So I think that that conspiracies, just by nature of how many there are are, are overall detrimental to society, because it's just breeding distrust. And and if this is, if this one's true, then then these ones can be true. Well, that's not true. And and and then you're in this really hard spot of like constantly, constantly not believing things which isn't true. I'm a big fan of questioning, I'm a big fan of challenging, but to be in a constant state of not believing anything and not trusting anyone is so unhealthy, is so bad, and overall I think that's. All conspiracies do is breed distrust and and convince people that they're being lied to by everyone and that they just need to go be a hermit and live on their own and not trust anyone, cause everybody's out to get them and there's no safety anywhere and nobody's good and and everything that you've learned about anything is a lie and it's all an agenda from the secret elite class of people and all this other stuff, and that's not good. It just leads to an unhealthy life of constant worry and stress, which isn't good. We need to be able to trust that most things are good and that most people want what's best for other people and and that the majority of things are okay. Um, and conspiracies just lead to more and more conspiracies which get out of hand and they just lead to complete downfall of trust. Um, so I I don't think that they're actually good overall for society as a whole.
Speaker 1:Um, but that is your devil's advocate. Let me know what you think. Do you like conspiracies? Um, do you think they're beneficial? Do you think they're detrimental? Let me know what you think Um, kind of a, a lower key, uh, less intense, less real kind of devil's advocate today. But, uh, again, if you have one message to the show, you can text the show. I'll get the text um on via the website. So let me know what you think about it Um, what your, what your view is, and if you have any other devil's advocate ideas, I would love to hear them so that it's more personal and you feel like you're part of the show, um, and before we let you go, uh, let's, let's leave you with one um final takeaway.
Speaker 1:Your final takeaway, um is my favorite part of the show. Actually, it used to be the devil's advocate and I do love it. I love the devil's advocate, but my favorite part is is for sure, now the the final takeaway, and it's because it's actually beneficial. It's it's stuff that I I think deeply about, I ponder on and I really do hope that people take it into consideration and try to use it, cause, like it's not, everything else on this show is just words. It's just me word vomiting everywhere Um, which isn't super helpful most of the time, and I I totally realize and understand that. But these last, like final takeaways really are helpful. I think, um, and there are things that I do and I think about a lot and I really try to implement in my life, um.
Speaker 1:So your, your final takeaway today is a phrase that I don't remember where I heard or what I was watching or what I was doing when I heard it, but it hit me hard and I've said it in the red room a couple of times already and I've talked to people about it hard, and I've said it in the red room a couple of times already and I've talked to people about it Um, and it's kind of like a mantra now for me Um, and kind of what I'm going to live this year by, I think, and probably the rest of my life, but uh, and and it's not something that I haven't heard before or that hasn't been passed along or hasn't been discussed to nauseam Um, but the phrase that I really want you to try to internalize, um, is what happens if I try. And it hit me really hard because I think a lot of times we we worry too much about all of the thing that we're trying to do and not so much about the effort. We think about the details, of exactly how we have to do things and what it all entails, and the people that are going to be involved and the steps that need to be taken, when, in reality, if we want to accomplish anything, we have to do it. We have to put effort. That's what actually gets things done. It's not the details, it's not the specific step-by-step process. That's not what gets it done. Those are words on a paper, those are ideas.
Speaker 1:What actually gets us to where we want to be is effort in in so many different ways hard effort, mediocre effort, lots of effort, little effort, mediocre effort, lots of effort, little effort. You know a long amount of time of effort, a short amount of time of effort, quick decisions, long decisions, but at the end of the day, the steps and the details and the amount of information and education and, um understanding of the thing that we're trying to do doesn't do anything. It might make you feel more comfortable, it might make you feel more confident Great, I love that, do it for sure. But effort and trying is what actually gets you to where you want to be. And so and I'm, I'm I'm not saying what I'm feeling very well, which is really difficult for me sometimes.
Speaker 1:But what happens if you try, you don't even have to succeed, you don't even have to actually accomplish what you're trying to accomplish. But what happens if you try? That's it, that's all. Just try. Just try to go to the gym, see what happens. Maybe you make it there, maybe you don't See what happens. Maybe you make it there, maybe you don't, that's fine. You know the business idea that you've been stewing on and thinking about forever. Hey, what happens if you try? You fail? Great, cool, awesome, move on. But what happens if you try? What happens? You don't know. You don't know how amazing it can be. You don't know if you fail. You don't know if you succeed because it hasn't happened yet, you haven't tried yet. And that just makes my heart pound with excitement, like, legitimately, when I go, I don't know. Let's find out what happens if you try, and that's that's like legit, going to be my focus, probably for the rest of my life. I love it so much. I love it so much. I want it on a sign. I'm going to like in my gym that I make one day that's going to be on a wall.
Speaker 1:What happens if you try? And if you obsess over that question enough. You start living different, you start thinking different, you start acting different, you start speaking different, and it's wild just pondering on that, thought so much and then actually trying stuff. It's wild, it's wild. So that is your final takeaway Think about that more and then actually put it into your life. What happens if I try and then try, just try all of the different things, try it, try it, try it, try it, try it, try it, try it, try it, try it, um, because if you do that, you are going to be different. There is no chance that you're the same person. After you start doing that, more and more and more and more and more. In all the circumstances you come in in, uh, come up in your life. In all the circumstances you come in in, uh, come up in your life. Just what happens if I try and then throw caution to the wind and try? Um, I love you guys, I really really do. Oh, this felt great, even though this was kind of chaotic and very open ended and no direction. It's fine Felt good to be back on the mic.
Speaker 1:Um, felt good to be back in the studio. If you guys have ideas for the show, I am open to suggestions. I am all ears. I love suggestions. I love talking to people about the show, so talk to me. If you have ideas of segments, if you have ideas for content, if you have ideas for um talking points, if you have things that come up that you want to. You want to hear my stupid opinions about all good, let me know.
Speaker 1:I do appreciate you guys tuning in. I really do love the support. I love doing this. I'm not going to stop, even though I don't care how many people listen to it. I haven't looked at the numbers, but I am going to keep doing this. So if you do love this show, please let me know and share it. Definitely share it, share your favorite parts, share the episode on your socials. Um, anyway, I love you guys. I hope that you, you know that you are powerful. You are, um, an incredible person just because you exist, um, and I mean that I, I do. If you don't believe that, talk to me. I will make you feel that way. Um, you're incredible. I love you. I hope you have a great week. I hope you have a great year, um, and and I really do hope you take into account that what happens if I try final takeaway, um, because you will be different? Uh, this is the fit perception podcast. I am your boy t, I love you and I am out, bye.