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Welcome to Nice Ashes, I'm Mike.

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And I'm Nate.

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What are we smoking today, Nate?

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And I told Mike I would do this.

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And I also told him I was going to butcher it.

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But this is the Herrera Astelli from Drew Estate.

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Sounds about right to me.

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Now wasn't Drew Estate behind the undercrown?

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Yes, the undercrown that everybody loves.

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Yes.

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So, you know, at least this one says Drew Estate right on the label.

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So maybe it's good.

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They're very highly rated.

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So it was the undercrown.

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All right.

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The one thing I have to remember, Mike, with my new V-cut is when I V-cut, it shoots cigar

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stuff out the back.

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So I have to remember to do it over the ashtray.

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Otherwise I'm picking up cigar trimmings.

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Oh, interesting.

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So it doesn't hold the little cigar in the cup, huh?

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Well, it holds the cigar in the cup, but the back of it is wide open.

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So it kind of like shoots it out the back.

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At least the design of mine, which is fine.

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Like I don't have a problem with it.

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I just have to actively remember because I've switched from my guillotine cutter to this

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one now because I quite like this one.

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But I just have to remember I kind of got into the force of habit with the other one

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where I would have to like kind of tap the cutter out to get the cut end out of it.

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Oh, that's right.

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Your guillotine does have a little cup on the back, doesn't it?

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Yeah.

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Forgot about that.

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Mine's open.

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So interesting.

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All right.

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Yeah.

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First couple of puffs are pretty good.

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Yeah.

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It's a pretty typical, decent cigar.

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Not overly dark, kind of medium body.

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Yes.

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Not too bad.

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Does have a slight astringent taste to it if you really look for it.

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Yeah, slightly.

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Before we get into the topic, we have a couple things we need to wrap up.

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We're going to wrap up for the sanity of Mike.

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We've got a couple, what would you call them, corrections or addendums or some previous

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episodes?

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Yes.

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Yes, yes.

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So first things first, I was singing the praises of a Pittsburgh ratchet end wrench.

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What was it?

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The swivel end wrench.

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Swivel end.

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And it's the indexable wrench because they make a swivel end wrench.

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Nate showed me and I have never used that one.

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It's called an indexable wrench.

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And this has been keeping Mike up at night.

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So hopefully tonight he can get some good sleep because he has come clean.

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Yes, yes I have.

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And then Mike, you also had an update on the sovereign citizens.

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Yes, yes I do.

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So a listener sent me a text message about it and they had a question about Native American

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tribes and becoming a sovereign citizen because they heard a rumor.

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Because they said, oh yeah, you go on.

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Oh no, no, you go ahead.

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Oh no, okay.

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Well, Mike and I talk outside the show.

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Mike I'm as a shock to some of you listeners.

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But Mike had told me that this listener believed that Native Americans could adopt people into

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their tribe to then become sovereign citizens.

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Yes.

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And I have disappointing information.

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So the BIA has 574 federally recognized American Indian and Alaskan Native tribes.

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And what is the BIA for those of us that are acronym inverse?

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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Okay, thank you.

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The BIA does not set criteria for tribal enrollment.

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Each individual tribe sets their own rules for enrollment.

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Typically the rules are based on genealogy.

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And you have to usually have some sort of legal documentation showing family membership.

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And then they usually have blood quantum, which is like you have to prove genetically

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that you have a certain percentage, usually a quarter.

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And then you also have to have residency and continued contact with the tribe.

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Now this is for the listener.

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The BIA does not set the rules.

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Every tribe sets its own rules.

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So if there is a tribe that will allow white people to become band members, you would have

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to find that very specific band online.

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And I looked and I could not find any advertisement for that.

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I know that obviously you would not be able to qualify for the quantum and get federal

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subsidy.

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Now, as far as the tax policy goes, I know this because I worked with tribal members

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in the past.

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You have to live on a reservation and work on a reservation to qualify for tax exempt

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status.

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So if you wanted to be a tax exempt person, you would have to be one, a member of a band,

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and there's 574 of them that set their own rules.

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Two, you have to live on a reservation and work on a reservation.

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So even if you're a band member living on a reservation, if you work off of a reservation,

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you have to pay tax.

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Or if you live off of the reservation and work on the reservation, you have to pay tax.

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Does that all make sense?

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It does.

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What if you live on one reservation and work on a different reservation?

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That's totally fine.

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If you even if you're, let's say you're a Navajo and you're living on a Hadatsa reservation

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and working on a Hadatsa reservation, you do not have to pay tax because you're living

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on a reservation.

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Yes.

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See what I'm saying?

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You're a band member of a different tribal nation, but you're still living on a reservation.

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Yes.

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Do they prefer tribal lands or reservation?

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Again, there's 574 standards.

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They all decide what they want, right?

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Yes.

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So there is no right or wrong answer.

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I too have an update on one of our past episodes.

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And I didn't text you this and I was going to, but I figured it'd be better now to get

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your full reaction.

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Our plumber friend, Keith said you nailed it on what plumbers need to know.

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Nice.

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He wants to know when you're coming to give a refresher training to.

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Nice.

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I will say that I'm quite handy and I fix almost everything at the house, but I will

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not fix any plumbing at my house under no circumstances.

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That is a skill level beyond what I am capable of and my confidence level is about zero.

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I did put a new flapper valve in our toilet, although I don't think I said it correctly.

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And then just recently I had to put a new handle on our toilet because we had the original

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plastic one from like 1960 whatever.

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And I was sent to the store with explicit instructions to get a metal one.

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Oh, sure.

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I did put a new flapper valve and handles on my toilets in the house.

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I'm talking more anything that has to do with piping.

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Yeah, I don't want.

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I'm not messing with it.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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I'd probably change out a faucet.

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Yeah, I don't think a faucet is easy.

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I'd change out a faucet in our bathroom and that was fine because it's mostly just the

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hoses.

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You shut off the water, make sure all the water's out of the thing, put some towels

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down because there's still water in it even though there's nothing coming out the faucet.

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And you just put a new faucet in.

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Like it's not complicated as long as you do all the things the right way, you know.

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Right, right.

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And the flooding wouldn't be, you'd know right away if you messed it up, hopefully.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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But you have a story about coming on glued bowling and then we're going to get into the

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meat and potatoes of this episode.

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I do.

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But before that, did you send that video?

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I forwarded you a video about electricians.

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Did you forward that to our listener friend?

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No, I didn't.

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Pretending a broom was Klein.

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Yeah, pretending a broom was Klein so the electricians would clean up after themselves.

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No, and it's funny because you've helped me out multiple times with electrician-earing,

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right?

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And electrician-earing.

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Yep, yes I have.

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Yes.

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And you're like, okay, you're just like clipping things and snipping things and things are

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flying everywhere.

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And you're like, yeah, we don't clean these up.

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And I'm like, oh, okay.

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Which is fine because like you're helping me.

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So it's not a big deal for me to clean them up.

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But it's funny because you sent me that and I'm like, yep, yep.

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It's so true.

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Yeah, everybody shits on the electricians.

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Rightfully so, by the way, because cleaning up after ourselves is not...

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It's like, yeah, just cut the end of the conduit off and let it fall into the corner.

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Who gives a shit?

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You're going to be out of this room in an hour or so.

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Screw it.

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But to be fair, the cleanup is not the important part of an electrician's job.

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Making sure things don't burn down and electrocute you and stuff, that's the important bit.

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So I think that's like, what do they call that?

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I don't know, managing your expectations or whatever it might be.

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But as long as the electrician stuff is done correctly, the cleanup is fine.

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It's not a big deal.

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Right.

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It depends on the contractor.

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If you are working on a commercial project for a big enough contractor, they typically

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have somebody whose job it is to clean.

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Yeah.

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We just don't worry about it.

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Nobody wants to pay $50 an hour for somebody to clean.

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You know what I mean?

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Yeah.

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Tell us about your bowling un-gluing incident.

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Oh, sure.

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There was a bowler who turned 18 and I was not aware of this.

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I know their parents and I saw them and I was like, oh, that's interesting.

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So a week or two later, I see them again and I'm like, surely you're not old enough to

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be bowling on adult league yet.

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Me being older and them being the child of one of my friends.

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Like, yeah, I turned 18 over the summer and blah, blah, blah.

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I'm like, well, that's cool.

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I wasn't upset.

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I was like, that's really exciting.

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So another week goes by and there was some complaining about bowling balls not hooking

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on the lane.

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This person was a youth bowler, now they're joining adult leagues.

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So it's a new environment, different alleys, different everything, you know, and they were

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complaining the bowl ball was dirty, oily, no maintenance being done.

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The ball is not hooking, just skidding through all the oil, you know.

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I look at them and I said, did you clean your ball?

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They're like, no.

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I'm like, do you wipe it off?

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No.

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When's the last time you cleaned your ball?

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I don't know.

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And I said, when I look at you roll the ball, I can count the number of revolutions on it

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with my eyes.

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So you're not putting any power on the ball and you're also not cleaning the ball.

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So you're allowing it to become dirty and oil soaked.

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So you're not giving the technology even a chance to hook at all.

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You don't deserve to hook the ball.

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If you want to hook the ball in the modern environment, you need to one, roll the ball

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in a way that imparts revolutions on the ball to create friction on the lane and two, you

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need to maintain your equipment.

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You spent two hundred and fifty dollars on this bowling ball and you're not taking care

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of it.

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You're not rolling it right and you're not taking care of it.

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I'm like, you need to adjust to this environment, right?

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Everywhere you go now, you're going to have lots of oil.

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It's supposed to be there.

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It's to be there to make it more difficult.

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So stop complaining and start taking care of it.

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And they did not like that.

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It's like, well, I wasn't your coach.

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But you were being coached in an environment for children.

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Now you're not a child anymore.

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Now you're an adult league and an adult league withers different conditions.

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You know, expectations are different to the big league.

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Exactly.

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Like you're not a child anymore.

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So oh, I went off.

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I'm like, you know, don't use that dirty ass towel to clean it off.

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Go get a fucking leather pad.

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They make them now specifically to absorb this new modern oil.

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You know, and you got to bake them every 60 games.

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I went through the list of shit they need to do to maintain it.

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It was a lot of stuff.

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I'm like, yeah, it's a two hundred and fifty dollar piece of equipment and you have more

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than one of them.

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Think about it.

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You just made a thousand dollar investment.

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You got to maintain your equipment, you know?

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Yeah, sure.

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And then they're bitching about not being able to hook the ball and bowling bad and

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all this.

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And I'm like, you are the directly responsible for your bad bowling.

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Like don't blame anybody else.

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It's your fault.

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So the lane is not making him ball that he chose to bowl poorly.

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So right.

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Yeah, you're making choices that created this environment.

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And when I said you don't deserve to hook the ball, man, that like look in the face

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like, oh, like, yeah, you earn it.

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I don't know how to say it.

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What is it?

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Who was it?

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Was it Abe Lincoln who said if he had the if he had to chop down a tree, he would spend

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like three quarters of the time sharpening the axe.

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I've never heard that quote before.

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Oh, there's some there's some quote like that.

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Basically, it was like, how would you chop down like the largest tree ever?

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And it was like I would spend most of my time sharpening the axe, you know, right.

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The right tool will make quick work of anything if it's up kept well.

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And speaking of up kept well, I changed the headlights on my car.

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Yes, it looks great, too.

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And I sent you a picture and I can see at night now, which is awesome.

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So is that all right.

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So Mike, we decided we're going to talk about different diets for this episode.

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Yes.

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And this is mostly because I was feeling poorly a couple of days ago.

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And I told you that I ate like dinner and then that was about it.

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And you said, oh, mad.

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And I'm acronym adverse.

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I think that's going to be on the ADA list soon.

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And I was like, what the fuck is that, Eddie, you're like one meal a day.

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And you were saying that what you eat one meal a day, try and get your blood sugar to

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not be high all day.

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And then my response was, well, as a type one diabetic, I wonder how that kind of works

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out with diabetics, because if I don't have food and I do things like I don't have this

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is like more than what we need for this episode.

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But there's insulin, which counteracts the carbohydrates that a person eats.

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But then when most people don't have enough carbohydrates, there's it's I don't know what

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it's called, but it's like an anti insulin.

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Like it's another hormone that kind of like keeps your your blood sugar at a rate level.

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But I don't have either.

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So if I don't have you talking about ketones or ghrelin or something.

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Well, you don't want ketones.

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Like if I go high for a long period of time, I get ketones in the urine and stuff like

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that.

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Oh, I mean, maybe it's ketones.

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Well, that's what the keto diet is all about, I guess.

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The ketones.

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Yeah, I don't I don't know.

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I don't know enough about it, even though I've been diabetic for, I guess, over 30 years.

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But whatever.

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But whatever it is, like you need both, right?

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You can't just have one or the other.

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So that's kind of the thing with the insulin pumps is the insulin pumps will give you insulin.

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But until they come up with one that also gives you like the anti insulin all in one,

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like it's not a true replacement for the cells in your pancreas that short out to give you

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these.

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But but regardless, that's that's neither here nor there.

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We're talking about different diets.

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And so I pulled up a couple articles about pros and cons of different diets.

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I don't know, Mike, do you want to do you want to start or do you want me to go through

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some of these and you can kind of like interject as you might have more familiarity with some

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of these than I do?

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Yeah, let's have you go through them.

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And that way we have an outline, but not just me rambling about nonsense.

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But we love when Mike rambles because then they can smoke a cigar.

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However, we we talked in between episodes here that this will be one of those episodes

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where Nate and Mike bring you the Internet to your ear holes because we're just kind

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of reading from the Internet.

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But you know what?

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If you're not going to look it up, we might as well for you.

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Right.

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And basically most of the things we talk about have to be looked up somewhere.

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I'm not going through the due decimal system anymore because this is 2023.

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All right.

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So the first one here, this is UAB medicine dot org.

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So you know, it's legit because all dot orgs are legit.

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Absolutely.

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The keto diet.

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I'm sure most people have heard of the keto diet.

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I know my my wife's parents have gone on keto diet.

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And I do know I do have some experience with this because when they're gung ho about their

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keto diet, when we go up to visit, they only cook keto things.

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And not only am I hungry is I'll get out.

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But I can tell I've lost some weight after that weekend.

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So I know it works.

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I know it does.

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What kind of keto things are they cooking?

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That's the question, man.

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It's like keto pizza and keto, whatever.

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Like, sure, that's sometimes.

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Go ahead.

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Yeah.

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Oh, no, you go on.

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The biggest issue that I've seen from the outside perspective of the keto diet is that

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they're trying to use modern science to make things that are bad for you slightly less

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bad and possibly as bad just in a different way.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Like it's not like a truly traditional ketogenic diet, which would be like meats and vegetables

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that are low in carbs with oils, you know, like food that you're supposed to eat.

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Right.

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Like vegetables that are not starchy.

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You know, so like for the keto pizza and stuff, they use like almond flour or something instead

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of like regular flour and a lot of like maybe pizzas with like cauliflower crust or things

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very low.

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So basically the ketogenic or keto diet, it's high in fat and low in carbohydrates, which

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traditionally are sugars.

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Right.

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So basically it causes the body to break down the fat into molecules called ketones and

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the ketones circulate in the blood and become the main source of energy for your body's

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cells instead of the carbohydrates, the sugars.

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And this diet, I guess, is used to treat types of epilepsy and some types of cancer.

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Yes.

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And type two diabetes.

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Yes.

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Also, there's growing research about using a ketogenic diet during cancer treatment because

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cancer cells use sucrose.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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So the pros, it's very effective for short term weight loss and reducing epileptic seizures.

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And then studies suggest it may have benefits for treating diabetes and some cancers.

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The cons, however, are there's not enough research to prove that it works and that it's

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safe for long periods of time.

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Right.

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And extremely limited carbohydrates can cause the just the problems, headaches and other

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side effects.

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We also have to say right away that the standard American diet is an abysmal failure that has

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created the highest rate of obesity and heart attacks.

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It's absolutely horrific health consequences for sure.

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We know that it's possibly the worst possible thing that you can eat.

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Yeah.

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So I think the two things that I've noticed about American food, and especially when you

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go to eat somewhere is one portion sizes are ginormous.

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They're massive.

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And two, the amount of salt that they put on things is ridiculous.

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We do a lot of like cooking at home and it's nothing like fancy, right?

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It's just like we cook things at home, but I never add salt to stuff.

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And so when you go to eat, you're like, whoa, that is salty.

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But salt is addictive and salt makes you drink more and salt makes you want more beer and

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more wine and more whatever.

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So like I understand it because it's all marketing, like everything's marketing.

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It's not really.

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Right.

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And so is sugar, by the way, that sugar absolutely is addictive.

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Oh, but sugar won the war.

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Sugar said, no, no, it's fat.

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It's fat content that makes you fat in food, not sugar content.

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But that's not true.

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Even though sugar has to be converted into fat through your liver to be used as food

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in your bloodstream.

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Your brain uses sugar directly, but all your muscles and everything else cannot use it.

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So it has to be converted to fat and then converted to ketones for your muscles to use.

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Yes.

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So that's part of the obesity problem.

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We're not doctors or nutritionalists.

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So we are not.

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We are not.

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Again, we're just here smoking cigars, drinking and having fun.

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I'm drinking a hot valley, but this time it's a bubble stash IPA.

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Oh, nice.

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I'm drinking a whiskey sour.

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There you go.

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So my a single glass of whiskey is done.

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All is cashed, so straight onto whiskey sour tone.

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There we go.

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All right.

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The next one is intermittent fasting.

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I know there are a lot of apps out on the Apple store and the Google Play store for

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intermittent fasting.

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You can set up your own things, but basically it's an eat.

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It's eating patterns.

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So it includes hours or days of little to no food consumption, but you're not limiting

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essential nutrients.

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So you alternate common ones are you alternate a day of fasting, fasting two days each week,

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and then strict limits on when what times of the day it's okay to eat.

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Yes.

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And some people argue there's doctors that argue that eating like the six meals a day

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that was recommended a decade ago is leading to type two diabetes because your blood sugar

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never drops.

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And it's probably not the best for you to have high blood sugar.

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You eat six small meals a day.

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Were these doctors from the Shire?

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Like I brought the fish, the Levenses.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.

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You're supposed to have like one major meal and then small snacks throughout the day.

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Right.

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I don't know if you ever heard that.

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Oh yeah.

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No, I did.

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I think your mom was onto that for a little bit.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And it's like literally the road to type two diabetes because your blood sugar never drops.

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And obviously you become insensitive to sugar.

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If you always have high blood sugar, it makes sense.

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I'm not a doctor, but it makes sense.

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Yeah.

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I mean, a lot of things make sense if you think about them hard enough, which a lot

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of people don't like to do.

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I'm not trying to call people out.

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I'm just saying like, you know, do some research every once in a while is fine.

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But the only do good research.

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Don't do like Facebook research.

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One of my favorite jokes of all time is a Jimmy Dore joke.

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And it goes, people were making fun of me for doing my own research.

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What that really means is they're making fun of me for being a reader.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's like, yeah, of course that's you're a reader now.

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What are you reading?

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Loser.

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Intermittent fasting.

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The pros are many diet dieters find it easier to not eat during parts of the day rather

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than following portion control and calorie restrictions all of the time.

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And a small amount of research suggests that fasting may lower blood pressure, blood sugar

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and cholesterol levels.

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And then the cons are that it might limit your intake of vitamins and minerals and

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it's effective for weight loss, but there's not a whole lot known about like longterm

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health effects or how easily people can stick to that kind of diet.

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Yes.

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And again, disclaimer, the standard American diet is literally the worst thing you can

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do for your body ever.

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It's horrible.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's terrible.

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I don't know if it's more terrible than being in like a country that has rampant starvation.

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No, it's the exact opposite, right?

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Like all the American diseases are diseases of excess, which our diet, the standard American

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diet generally pushes, right?

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Like a box of macaroni and cheese is not a healthy dinner, right?

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So it's delicious.

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It's delicious, but it is not good for you.

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Well, and it's funny because like I never really thought about it.

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If you go like, oh, I'm going to go have like Italian.

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Well, what do you get?

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You get like a huge fucking plate of like spaghetti and you get breadsticks and it's

497
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,760
like, well, I'm just eating like all the carbs then.

498
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:05,760
You know what I mean?

499
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:06,760
Right.

500
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:07,760
With sugar and fat.

501
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:08,760
Yeah.

502
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:09,760
Yeah.

503
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:14,720
Sugar, fat and salt mixed together is just an addictive concoction, right?

504
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,320
Yeah, of course.

505
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:17,480
Not good.

506
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,440
So this next one, I know my dad did this one.

507
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,040
This is the Paleo diet.

508
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:27,860
So this is named for the Paleolithic era wherein humans obtained food by hunting and gathering

509
00:24:27,860 --> 00:24:29,840
instead of by farming and processing.

510
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:34,320
This diet emphasizes lean meats, fish, vegetables, fruits and nuts.

511
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,920
And I had thoughts on this one because I was thinking about this one when we were talking

512
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,440
about doing this episode Paleolithic.

513
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:45,480
And now I read like the dawn of everything and I read Indian givers.

514
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:50,520
And I think we briefly talked about Indian givers on the show where like the potato was

515
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:57,360
native to the Americas and maize was native to the Americas and tomatoes were native to

516
00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:58,360
Americas.

517
00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:03,920
So when you're thinking about like Paleolithic era, I don't I'm not you're more up to speed

518
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,280
on the history stuff.

519
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:10,480
Were there Paleolithic humans in the Americas at that time?

520
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:11,860
Yes there were.

521
00:25:11,860 --> 00:25:17,280
Also maize and corn in the modern sense are not the same thing, right?

522
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,680
And tomatoes are not the same thing.

523
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:24,840
So that's why something like an heirloom tomato exists because we've genetic we've it's not

524
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:25,840
genetically modified.

525
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:32,040
It's just through breeding over hundreds of years we have propagated certain properties,

526
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,920
which is usually high sugar content.

527
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:38,080
Yeah and all bananas are clones.

528
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:42,160
But I did want to mention one thing and the reason why I called it maize instead of corn

529
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:49,680
is because corn is a designation of your country's main exported grain or whatever.

530
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:55,420
So corn flakes here are different than corn flakes in the UK.

531
00:25:55,420 --> 00:26:03,700
So our big crop is corn or maize people call maize and corn in England is wheat.

532
00:26:03,700 --> 00:26:04,700
That's their big export.

533
00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:08,920
So when you say corn in the UK, it means wheat.

534
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,360
It does not mean maize.

535
00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:12,360
I did not know that.

536
00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:17,120
That is yeah and I didn't know that until I until I did a one month long internship

537
00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:23,100
in London and they don't they don't call it like so anything that was corn was wheat.

538
00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:27,520
So corn flakes would be like our wheaties right.

539
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:32,760
And then corn flakes there would be like maize flakes or something.

540
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:39,280
So it's just is a slight differential but it's like an economic agricultural term not

541
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:46,120
talking to a specific grain or plant but whatever that country exports the most of.

542
00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:47,240
Sure that's interesting.

543
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:48,480
I did not realize that.

544
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:54,800
But yes so that was my thought with the paleo diet was well what paleo era humans was it

545
00:26:54,800 --> 00:27:00,840
all paleo era humans because if you're talking like my paleo diet is from the from Europe.

546
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,760
Well then you're not eating potatoes right.

547
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:04,760
You know what I mean.

548
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:10,720
But or modern tomatoes or modern corn or modern wheat like US wheat at least for sure.

549
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:11,720
Yeah.

550
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:17,560
But I think it's more what in spirit right than actually being specifically tied to a

551
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:19,720
certain region or whatever.

552
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,400
Yeah facts are not necessary.

553
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,680
Yeah of course not.

554
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:27,160
So the pros are the paleo diet successful weight and appetite reduction and there's

555
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,840
some positive impact on heart health.

556
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,440
The cons are limited by cost and food availability.

557
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,540
It's expensive because the less processed something is the more expensive it is for

558
00:27:36,540 --> 00:27:37,540
some reason.

559
00:27:37,540 --> 00:27:40,120
I'm sure there's no foul play in there whatsoever.

560
00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:45,760
But but that's how it is a box of mac and cheese costs way less than like one apple

561
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,780
and then it also restricts certain food groups such as dairy products fiber rich whole grains

562
00:27:49,780 --> 00:27:52,600
and some legumes like beans and peas.

563
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:56,360
So the diet may have long term negative effects based on nutritional balance.

564
00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:59,820
And I think we're going to find that a lot in some of this stuff where it's like nutritional

565
00:27:59,820 --> 00:28:01,660
balance is kind of out of whack.

566
00:28:01,660 --> 00:28:05,920
Not that not that the nutritional balance of the average American meal is where it needs

567
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:06,920
to be.

568
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:08,880
But have you tried any of these by the way.

569
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,240
Yeah of course.

570
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:11,240
Oh OK.

571
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,600
I've done keto.

572
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,440
I did like the shitty keto where you try all the weird keto foods and you can lose weight.

573
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,080
It's very hard to keep it off.

574
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:23,720
Yeah I've tried certain levels of intermittent fasting.

575
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,280
Those who've seen me know that I'm overweight for sure.

576
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,280
My weight has fluctuated.

577
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:33,520
I have a hard time with that largely because I like the shitty American foods.

578
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,120
You know it's just hard to resist.

579
00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:40,320
You know yeah I my weight fluctuates too and I feel like I might be the heaviest I've ever

580
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:46,280
been but I kind of like when I'm stressed I tend to eat you know.

581
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:50,520
I don't know that I don't I feel fat but I don't think that I really look fat because

582
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,920
I'm so tall but I just I feel like I'm overweight.

583
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,280
Oh sure.

584
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:56,720
That's body.

585
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,620
You don't look fat to me my friend but that's a matter to you.

586
00:29:00,620 --> 00:29:03,200
You know I have a you to me.

587
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,240
Well thanks buddy.

588
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:11,280
I don't have any issues with blood sugar fortunately but I do have borderline blood pressure usually

589
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,680
typically because I spend a lot of my time being pissed off I think and I'm overweight

590
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:16,680
you know.

591
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,920
Yeah the piss off might have more to do with it.

592
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,560
I think the piss off might have more to do with it.

593
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:27,400
I have a very I have a lot of stress in my job and I have for years different careers

594
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:33,760
obviously but I tend towards the higher stress career paths for some reason.

595
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:39,700
So it's just a lot of anxiety generally but right now I'm trying to control my sugar intake

596
00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:46,280
and I've pretty much switched to just one meal a day because largely eating one meal

597
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,520
a day is easier for me socially with my job.

598
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:50,520
Yeah.

599
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,200
I just eat dinner with my spouse right.

600
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,680
And so that's nice and then I don't have to worry about eating through the day.

601
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,400
I just just it's not an issue because I'm always busy all day long.

602
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:02,400
Yeah.

603
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:08,800
And trying to lower my sugar intake helps with not eating during at lunch.

604
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,400
You know I haven't ate breakfast on any regular basis for years.

605
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,720
Like I don't know 15 years maybe even longer than that.

606
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:22,880
Like I never really ate breakfast so I kind of always did the intermittent fasting I guess

607
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,520
but not not eating lunch obviously helps with lowering the calories and just eating dinner

608
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,600
and being done with it you know.

609
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,960
And I've been doing that for a while and I've lost weight a lot of weight actually.

610
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,360
That's good.

611
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,480
Slow and steady wins the race right.

612
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:44,640
A lot of these diets the sustainability of it is what's important and you know a lot

613
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:49,720
of these ones so far have said well nobody knows if you can do this for a long time without

614
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:54,200
like health risks if you're severely limiting one thing over the other thing.

615
00:30:54,200 --> 00:31:01,360
And what I found when I lost the most weight myself was when I was really active with the

616
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:07,200
portion control because your stomach kind of stretches out and if you have one big meal

617
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,800
then your next meal you want to be as big for whatever you know for whatever reason

618
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,560
I don't know all the medicine behind it or the science behind it.

619
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:19,080
But if you can do the portion control I feel like that's an easily sustainable thing.

620
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,760
Whereas saying well I can't eat this because it's not keto or I can't eat that because

621
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,040
it's not paleo or I can't like some of that stuff it's like if you want to shed weight

622
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:31,280
that's fine but you also have to have that continual plan in place then because it's

623
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:35,240
not just about losing the weight one time then you have to keep it off too.

624
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,920
And that's where a lot of these things I think and I don't know for sure but because I've

625
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:43,800
never really like actively tried to diet other than like I know I need to lose weight so

626
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,360
I'm going to try and eat less food each meal.

627
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:47,360
Sure so for me.

628
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,200
Which I guess is a diet but.

629
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,480
Right for me I struggle with portion control for sure.

630
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:58,560
Which is where like controlling my drinking comes into it because you know I can go and

631
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:03,720
drink four or five beers bowling but that's a thousand calories right.

632
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:08,380
Like drinking four beers is borderline on a thousand calories.

633
00:32:08,380 --> 00:32:13,000
So if you do that twice a week you're not getting drunk at any point because it's spread

634
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,240
out over three four hours.

635
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:19,900
But now you just add it in an extra two thousand calories and that's not really sustainable

636
00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:23,800
over a lifetime unless you're cutting something else out you know.

637
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:29,040
Yeah well and every time I look at like one of these and we don't we I usually just drink

638
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:34,080
coffee at home but every once in a while we go out and we get one of the like the caribou

639
00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:39,800
coffee like the coolers or whatever and you if you ever look at the nutritional values

640
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:44,360
on those things it's like well there's my entire calorie intake for like the next two

641
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:45,360
days.

642
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:46,720
Oh yeah it's terrible.

643
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:51,480
With one of those things and it's like how is this even legal to sell these things.

644
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:52,840
Oh it's terrible.

645
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,200
And my Sarah used to work at caribou and she had this lady that would come in and there

646
00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:02,520
were two of those in the morning every morning like two of these like super large extra everything

647
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:07,320
like and it's like how many calories is that every morning.

648
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,200
Right it's it's crazy you know and a lot of it has to do with schedule you know that lady

649
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:17,240
might work 14 hours a day and it's really hard to make healthy decisions when you're

650
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,560
doing that I know that when I was doing 13 days on a one day off I would buy pre-boiled

651
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,960
eggs because I didn't have time to boil eggs at home.

652
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:32,440
I just didn't feel like I had the time to boil eggs which is insane but that's just

653
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,440
the life I was living at the time you know.

654
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:39,320
I was doing school I was working you know I was doing some crazy shit.

655
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,240
And I don't know I feel like a lot of this stuff is like it's all societal it's I don't

656
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,680
know if it's really pressure but like of course there's societal pressure to work hard and

657
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:53,320
do well at your job but these jobs shouldn't require health sacrifices you know it's one

658
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:59,600
of those things where it's if the job really wanted good long-term workers they would build

659
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:04,520
that lifestyle stuff in to where you would have time to do these things you know.

660
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:05,520
Oh for sure.

661
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,440
They'll help you with that but they don't give two fucks and the society doesn't care

662
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,400
because the people that are making tons of money every time somebody sneezes are making

663
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:19,360
tons more money every time somebody buys a box of mac and cheese versus an apple or something.

664
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:25,040
Right I saw a study and it's been a while so the numbers aren't quite accurate but at

665
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:31,960
professional jobs you get 13,000 calories a year in empty calories on average because

666
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:39,000
of all the donuts and cookies and like muffins and shit like that that you get at the office

667
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,000
you know.

668
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:45,800
And I can totally see that or pizza at you know lunch events or you know what I mean

669
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:51,280
yeah and it's like 13,000 calories added up over years of time is a lot of time you know

670
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:57,000
yeah that's a lot of calories and most of those jobs are sedentary you're sitting so

671
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:02,000
they give you donuts and pizza and things and they make you sit at your desk for eight

672
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,160
hours and you can't walk you can't stand you can't like leave your desk so it's like a

673
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:07,160
double whammy.

674
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:12,400
Yeah and for me well this is just me like for the last year or so I've just been avoiding

675
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,400
eating lunch because that typically means going to a restaurant which means you're eating

676
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:21,360
2,000 calories every time you know and that's just not sustainable that's what you should

677
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,280
eat for a whole day.

678
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:28,240
So it just makes my life easier and like I say I'm getting results my blood pressure's

679
00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:32,680
gone down and I'm losing weight so that's the manners.

680
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:38,920
Yeah and if you get cut down on the bitching out of 18 year olds I think your blood pressure

681
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,040
might go back to normal.

682
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,360
Yes other factors as well but yes.

683
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:50,760
Alright so the next one is the Atkins diet so that's it's similar I guess it's similar

684
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:56,760
to the keto diet with its focus on burning fat it was modified in 2002 to the four phase

685
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:02,760
new Atkins diet revolution and what it does is it eliminates food made with refined flour

686
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:07,440
and sugar and it restricts whole grain foods until the final phase of the diet so and I

687
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:11,720
think a lot of these like pre-packaged diets have phases where it's like the first week

688
00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:15,280
you do this or the first couple weeks you do this and that and whatever.

689
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:16,280
Right.

690
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,360
I've never been on the Atkins diet I don't know if I've I don't think I've known anybody

691
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:20,960
who's been on the Atkins diet.

692
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:26,120
I have and it's a very effective way to lose weight it's very similar to the keto diet

693
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:31,440
yeah because it's got a lot of gimmicky food that's all really low in sugar and high in

694
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,680
fat and a lot of meat eating so yeah.

695
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,600
So the pros are it's effective for short term weight loss and it's easier to maintain than

696
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,920
similar diets that limit fat intake.

697
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:47,280
The cons are decreases your nutrient intake and studies have suggested that low carbohydrate

698
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:51,720
diets are unlikely to result in long term weight loss and may lead to health problems

699
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:56,040
and I think that's like a lot of these are kind of like see results in the first like

700
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:59,360
three months and then they don't really care what happens to you after that.

701
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,280
I don't know for sure I'm not trying to like slam Atkins or anything like that but you

702
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,760
know just like you got to if you want to lose a lot of weight you got to do something but

703
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,200
then you have to also do something else after that like there's got to be a phase two to

704
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,920
keep that weight off you know you can't just go back to regular eating afterwards because

705
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,240
that's how you got in the trouble in the first place.

706
00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:22,960
Right and like I say a lot of this stuff they're trying to maintain the standard American diet

707
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:27,680
just with chemical processes that are slightly different so you lose weight and it's just

708
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,160
it's not good for your body.

709
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:36,080
No I am not a health expert but possibly just eating real foods and limiting your intake

710
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,400
of processed foods is going to be the best bet long term.

711
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:44,360
Yeah and I think too if you don't want to get all sciencey and stuff well that's my

712
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:49,280
term for like if you don't want to read the nutritional labels which is funny because

713
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:53,960
so I'm type one diabetic and they always ask me if I want to speak to their nutritional

714
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:58,000
expert and I'm like no get that person away from me because they're always like super

715
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:03,840
preachy not always I mean that's like a generalization but in the past when I have talked with them

716
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,680
they've been like super preachy like well what are you eating I'm eating a fuck ton

717
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,680
of food because our society is what our society is you know like it's like from the Joaquin

718
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:15,960
Phoenix like Joker I live in a society or whatever so anyway.

719
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:21,280
The next before you before you continue cigar check because I am halfish way I'm halfish

720
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:28,040
way yeah very good cigar very smooth yes I like it medium bodied I like it a lot yeah

721
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,760
this is a this is a good one.

722
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:35,000
Jewish states is usually pretty good I was really disappointed with those you remember

723
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,360
but I don't what what the hell were they called the under grounds.

724
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,680
Yeah I was really disappointed with those.

725
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:50,800
I don't know this one's fine it's good I can see this like playing golf right it's good

726
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:57,320
yeah yeah yeah it's not insanely good but it's perfectly adequate yep I like it it's

727
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:03,240
good it's been consistent yes sir all right the next diet is the Mediterranean diet and

728
00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:10,680
I know my wife's parents or my wife's mom was huge into this I think we've got a giant

729
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:15,760
like all of these diet books for some reason are like a four inch spine or something and

730
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:20,880
it's like it's you don't like that's too difficult like you can you can make these things easier

731
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:25,080
you don't have to but anyway we had like a printout for a while but anyway Mediterranean

732
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:29,320
diet this diet follows the traditional eating habits and lifestyle in countries along the

733
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:34,520
Mediterranean Sea but basically it's you focus on fruit vegetables whole grains beans nuts

734
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:39,680
and heart healthy fats and you limit dairy red meat highly processed foods and sugars

735
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:44,800
and salts the pros are it's the most extensively studied diet to date and research shows it

736
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:49,200
can have preventative and therapeutic impact on many chronic health conditions and it's

737
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,600
especially popular among people who are interested in a healthy lifestyle and not just weight

738
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:59,120
loss but the cons are it can be expensive to maintain yes calories from olive oil and

739
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,320
nuts are not carefully watched those and other fatty foods in this diet may contribute to

740
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:08,400
weight gain so if you go too hard into it on certain aspects you might actually gain

741
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:14,040
weight absolutely well it's all about calories not all about calories but ultimately you

742
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:19,360
can't eat 3,000 calories a day you know you just can't no matter what they are that sounds

743
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:23,920
like a challenge Mike and I'm gonna do it god damn it yeah and 3,000 calories come really

744
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:29,040
quick if you're drinking two beers three beers you know yeah yeah well I will not tell you

745
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:36,360
what I have drink tonight yeah all right here's the next one I'm switching to a different

746
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:41,040
website now I'm going to try and not repeat what we've already talked about this one's

747
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:45,400
called the Blue Zones diet and I've never heard of it never heard of it okay so this

748
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:51,840
one the pros so the Blue Zones diet I guess got its name in 2005 it's based on demographic

749
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:58,440
research into regions where the author Dan Bootner found people live longer than average

750
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:03,520
so basically he did a study where he found people that live longer than average and then

751
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:09,140
figured out what their diets were it emphasizes whole grains a handful of nuts a cup of beans

752
00:41:09,140 --> 00:41:14,560
and five to ten servings of fruits and vegetables daily it says no sugar sweetened beverages

753
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:19,260
salty snacks packaged sweets or processed meats so the pros are a holistic approach

754
00:41:19,260 --> 00:41:23,360
to wellness that encompasses diet social connection and whole food plant-based diet and moderate

755
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:30,120
physical activity and it minimizes processed foods and sugars the cons are grains and legumes

756
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:34,920
are not ideal for people with food sensitivities and it minimizes meat consumption which can

757
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:39,980
fit into a balanced diet yes all right this next one and you mentioned this one to me

758
00:41:39,980 --> 00:41:46,240
I think before we started recording the carnivore diet yes so the carnivore diet is pretty simple

759
00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:51,120
you just eat animal foods some carnivores will allow coffee dairy and animal fats while

760
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:55,880
others are meat only basically it's a zero carb diet which can increase your risk of

761
00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,400
digestive issues and thyroid problems long term but you're not eating fruits and vegetables

762
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:05,040
so you're missing out on some of that stuff too yeah you have to eat a lot of liver and

763
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:10,080
brains and other shit like that to get all your vitamins that's how he says brains I

764
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:15,240
think of the scene from Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom with the jello monkey brains

765
00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:20,480
oh yeah awful right like well the the car the issues with the carnivore diet is that

766
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:26,940
a lot of our vitamin intake is from leafy green vegetables green veggies you know colorful

767
00:42:26,940 --> 00:42:33,320
vegetables yeah and you have to substitute then a lot of liver and lung and all these

768
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:39,440
weird organs that are just not available generally in the United States yeah I think the problem

769
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:45,840
with the carnivore diet is that we're omnivores or not carnivores and it's the same as the

770
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:51,040
pet owners that feed their cats only vegan food and then their cats are like so sick

771
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:56,720
right yeah it's like people trying to feed their dogs like plant-based treats it's like

772
00:42:56,720 --> 00:43:00,960
look at your dog's teeth every single one of them are sharp they they want to eat flesh

773
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:06,640
it's just the way it is so it's ugly but it's true yeah and so like it goes I think this

774
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:12,200
one kind of goes against like nature or evolution or what have you so yeah it says it's easy

775
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,840
to follow for a pro you just eat meat so it's easy you just fucking eat meat and then the

776
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:21,440
cons are it's extremely restrictive and zero carb is not sustainable all right the next

777
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,380
one is DASH diet I don't know if you've heard of about that no I just thought of like I

778
00:43:25,380 --> 00:43:29,720
just thought of door dash when it said that but yeah I guess it's been around since the

779
00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:36,040
90s and it says DASH it's an acronym which I love I've mentioned DASH stands for dietary

780
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:41,480
approaches to stop hypertension so it's designed to reduce blood pressure so the pros are to

781
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:47,160
emphasize whole foods it reduces processed foods and sugar and it provides easy guidelines

782
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:52,540
to apply to your everyday meals so far that doesn't sound too crazy no so the cons though

783
00:43:52,540 --> 00:43:58,200
it says it allows artificial sweeteners in moderation limits saturated fats altogether

784
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:03,160
I guess there's an extra hyperlink here that says read why that's a problem and then it

785
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:07,340
says it's not really ideal for people with food sensitivities but I don't know I feel

786
00:44:07,340 --> 00:44:13,200
like this one is maybe more positive than any of the others we've read about so far

787
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:18,400
so the DASH diet I guess if you have high blood pressure Mike it might not might not

788
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:22,680
be a bad thing to look into the DASH diet again I'm not a doctor so right I am not a

789
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:28,440
doctor either but I guess that I have been consuming a modified version of that I'm like

790
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,920
lazy about it I'm not like doing any sort of counting of anything I'm not interested

791
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:37,320
in that but yeah it's funny I'm not really interested in that either but I have to kind

792
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:44,500
of count carbs to get myself insulin and I do but I kind of like I have a trouble like

793
00:44:44,500 --> 00:44:49,320
estimating the portion sizes that I'm eating you know so until I can get like if I can

794
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:53,520
point my camera and be like on my phone like here's what I'm eating just tell me I just

795
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:57,240
won't know because it's too it's difficult you know like it's I know it's not really

796
00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:02,440
that difficult people do it all the time but it's like an added step so I think a lot of

797
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:07,360
the issues it's kind of like using a diet app like new or something you have to make

798
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:12,840
it like a hobby and it's not an enjoyable hobby so people don't stick to it you know

799
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:19,660
what I mean like just enjoy yourself it's laborious is what it is right try to be responsible

800
00:45:19,660 --> 00:45:25,000
the majority of the time right yeah like we've hung out in the last year and it's not like

801
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:30,660
I'm like restricting what I'm eating or anything like that but on days where I'm just going

802
00:45:30,660 --> 00:45:35,160
to work and coming home and doing that it's like maybe I should have some you know some

803
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:42,120
broccoli with maybe some chicken breast or something yeah yeah yeah not not not get crazy

804
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:47,760
right well for me like I said earlier it's like it's the portion sizes like I just eat

805
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:54,440
a lot but I know if I just didn't eat as much as I eat I would lose weight you know so I

806
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:58,800
don't know right and adults used to smoke cigarettes and we don't anymore and I think

807
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:03,140
a lot of that has been replaced with eating which is why our lung cancer rates have gone

808
00:46:03,140 --> 00:46:08,920
down but our obesity rates have gone up because people cope you know cigarettes like an appetite

809
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:15,160
suppressor absolutely yep yes they are all right you ready for this next one yes the

810
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:23,560
picture looks like a lot of salad so this one's called the Dukan diet D u k a n the

811
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:29,360
Dukan diet is a high protein low carb diet it was developed in 2000 there's four phases

812
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:34,160
that promote rapid weight loss without making you feel hungry primarily by emphasizing high

813
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:38,440
protein meals and keeping carbs low enough to put you in ketosis and each phase has its

814
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:42,580
own rules about what to eat and everything but I guess there's a lot of guidelines for

815
00:46:42,580 --> 00:46:47,140
each phase but the pros are it's designed to help you shift into ketosis it encourages

816
00:46:47,140 --> 00:46:52,000
eating more protein which helps you feel full helps you feel full cons eating too much protein

817
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,560
over an extended period of time can kick you out of ketosis and increase other health conditions

818
00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:00,960
and strict guidelines may not be ideal for people who have a negative relationship with

819
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:06,900
food right a lot of these seem like gimmick diets that we're covering yeah I was hoping

820
00:47:06,900 --> 00:47:11,200
the South Beach South Beach diet would come in here and maybe I don't know anything about

821
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:15,240
the South Beach diet I thought it was you just drank this like shake thing from South

822
00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:20,040
Beach giant and then that was good okay and Weight Watchers is gonna come yeah I was gonna

823
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:25,080
say that all right so this next one's the gluten free diet yes basically for people

824
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:31,440
will see like Z's and I've read and I don't know because I'm not a scientist but it's

825
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:36,120
not really the gluten it's the other stuff but I guess things with gluten tend to have

826
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:40,880
more of this thing anyway but it's not really the gluten see and I've read that because

827
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:48,660
we have genetically modified wheat modern wheat has higher gluten in it than it used

828
00:47:48,660 --> 00:47:54,960
to have and that does affect people not like celiac level but our bodies are not capable

829
00:47:54,960 --> 00:48:01,920
of processing all that wheat gluten that's in like chips and you know sugary garbage

830
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:08,120
stuff that we eat sure pros are it eliminates gluten protein found in wheat grains of barley

831
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:11,560
and there's been some gluten-free beer I've seen so you know they're certainly doing that

832
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:16,840
and it's more accessible now because there's growing popularity in gluten-free foods cons

833
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:21,400
are it's not an inherently healthy way to manage weight it requires extra care to avoid

834
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:26,400
gluten contamination so if you really do have celiac you don't need you can't kind of kind

835
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:30,280
of any gluten and then it's very difficult to manage if you're eating out oh yeah for

836
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:35,240
sure this next one looks interesting because it's a picture of a whole bunch of pills so

837
00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:43,260
I'm sure this one's good it's called the HCG diet never heard of it the HCG diet makes

838
00:48:43,260 --> 00:48:48,120
big claims without a lot of substance the site is unsafe and HCG products are illegal

839
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:52,320
it recommends limiting your calorie intake to just 500 calories per day for an extended

840
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:56,240
period of time which can slow down your metabolism interfere with your body's natural process

841
00:48:56,240 --> 00:49:02,720
and makes you feel lousy this reminds me of oh god it's one of my favorite films this

842
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:15,680
reminds me of the matrix no requiem for a dream oh okay where the the mother of Jared

843
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:21,600
Leto Bernstein phenomenal phenomenal performance from her she's taken uppers and downers because

844
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,840
she wants to lose weight because she is convinced she's going on a game show on TV and she takes

845
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:32,400
all of these pills and then it's it's crazy so the pros are it allegedly leads to rapid

846
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:38,140
weight loss the cons it says here is literally everything over-the-counter HCG products are

847
00:49:38,140 --> 00:49:44,280
banned by the FDA so this seems like a diet you can't even follow anymore without being

848
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:48,160
I guess illegal so I don't know why that's even on there but I guess it was a diet at

849
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:55,480
one point the next one is the low FODMAP diet F O D M A P diet another great acronym for

850
00:49:55,480 --> 00:50:04,880
you yes and it is an acronym catch good catch FODMAPs fermentable oh my god jesus christ

851
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:14,960
I see why it's a acronym fermentable oligosaccharides disaturides monosaccharide and poly polyols

852
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:19,040
all right are carbohydrates that can cause the gist of the stress in some people if you've

853
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,940
ever felt bloated after eating wheat legumes high fructose fruits like apples or milk you

854
00:50:22,940 --> 00:50:28,800
may benefit from a low FODMAP diet so basically the pros are providing relief for people to

855
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:33,600
the digestive concerns and it limits common triggers for food intolerances intolerances

856
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:38,400
such as gluten and dairy cons it's not really a diet but more of an eating pattern and it

857
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:42,740
takes two to six weeks of strict adherence to take effect and it's best done with a doctor's

858
00:50:42,740 --> 00:50:47,840
support sure I've never heard of that one no this next one's called the master cleanse

859
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:52,920
it's also known as the lemonade diet the master cleanse is a way to lose water weight by only

860
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:58,120
drinking liquids and laxative for at least 10 days hey that sounds fun oh my god let's

861
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:07,480
do that why not just not eat anything and drink water you know like why add extra steps

862
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:12,240
all right so you know like episodes salts right yep so you put them in a bath and it

863
00:51:12,240 --> 00:51:15,880
like makes your skin feel good but on the back of the on the back of the like the bag

864
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:20,440
it's like you could also be used as a laxative and so one time my Sarah was like oh I'm all

865
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:24,760
like gunked up I gotta do like I'm gonna do the laxative episode salt thing and she did

866
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:29,840
the thing on the back of the thing and she like shit for like three days that was like

867
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:36,480
the worst ever do it over a long weekend is what you're saying yeah I'm sure I'm sure

868
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:43,120
I'm sure my wife is super thrilled I'm talking about that right now so the pros of this diet

869
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:49,280
the master cleanse is that it's simple you just drink lemonade and laxatives for 10 days

870
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:59,360
oh my god anyway the cons are it's not sustainable because you shit everything out and then it's

871
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:04,320
extreme caloric restriction and it increases your stress hormones so like your body knows

872
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:10,480
when you're being like fucked up right right that's insane oh yeah that's funny I'm gonna

873
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:16,560
recommend that one to anybody who says how can I lose weight I just drink laxative for

874
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:23,080
10 days straight yeah there's just drink water and laxative you will lose weight I guarantee

875
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:35,680
it not a doctor but yeah fuck all right this next one's called the mono diet it's called

876
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:40,200
the monotropic diet it involves eating just one type of food for an undefined period of

877
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:45,800
time it was popularized in 2014 but there's I guess there's been people that have followed

878
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:50,520
this throughout history and they're usually branded eccentric it's dangerously restrictive

879
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:56,280
it increases your risk of nutrient deficiencies so yeah a lot of people do potatoes they like

880
00:52:56,280 --> 00:53:02,880
to bake potatoes or like whatever yeah yeah all right the next one is Nutri system it's

881
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:07,360
a convenient way to have prepared pre-portioned meals delivered to your door so it's one of

882
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:12,680
those like you know made to order things the pros are it's convenient all meals are delivered

883
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:17,080
to your doorstep and the structure format takes the guesswork out of the weight management

884
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:21,960
but the monthly the cons are the monthly cost and it's not ideal for people with food allergies

885
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:25,440
or sensitivities because you just get what they give you and it makes eating out difficult

886
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:30,760
because you're supposed to eat your pre-packaged meal from the subscription service right right

887
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:38,080
this one's called a pegan diet that sounds almost as made up as some of the what is it

888
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:49,280
the lgbtq flags we read about that i had the same thought well that's why we're we're doing

889
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:54,440
a podcast together i guess oh good i'm gonna you know what this is gonna be my favorite

890
00:53:54,440 --> 00:54:01,280
sentence i've read ever i think at least on the podcast pagan part paleo part vegan the

891
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:08,280
pegan diet was created by dr hyman in 2014 dr mark hyman primarily a plant-based whole

892
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:13,680
food style of eating minus the beans and whole grains but allows for some meat fish and eggs

893
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:18,620
but you're also going to be avoiding dairy you go 75 percent veggies and fruits and meat

894
00:54:18,620 --> 00:54:23,520
is the side not the main course so it combines the whole food principles of vegan with the

895
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:29,040
omnivore benefits of paleo and it eliminates processed foods and common allergy triggers

896
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:34,840
like gluten and legumes cons are nuts and seeds contain phytic acid and anti-nutrient

897
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:39,320
that can cause sensitivities so i don't know why it would be like part vegan if you're

898
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:46,280
also still eating meat and thing but i think it's avoiding uh like milk and dairy products

899
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:54,880
in general yeah right so the vegetarians will consume dairy products some consume eggs and

900
00:54:54,880 --> 00:55:00,640
of course the vegans are no animal product which is just as kind of against our nature

901
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:06,000
as paleo seemingly you know yeah yeah like we have sharp teeth in the front of our face

902
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:14,920
for a reason uh yeah well and um the vegans sometimes i know excited when in in college

903
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:21,960
or the vegetarians will do egg whites but not the egg yolks a lot that seems like not

904
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:28,920
based on any sort of health thing i mean i never said it was yeah no i know i know i

905
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:34,200
know they sell like a carton of egg whites right yes grocery store and so i'd have to

906
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:39,160
get that and then she also uh ate this like i don't know if it was really the plant-based

907
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:43,240
but it was like this plant-based bacon but she had to put so much on it to make it like

908
00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:47,760
palatable but i always called it faken and she and she hated me for it and that's probably

909
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:51,600
why we broke up but it was terrible it tasted like cardboard and it's like if you put enough

910
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:58,320
butter on cardboard of course it tastes good but not really my sarah got a jug of egg white

911
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:03,680
a while back for some reason she had a very specific reason for it she used whatever portion

912
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:10,600
for whatever purpose she had and then it sat in there until it just got thrown away like

913
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:16,880
i don't know why anybody would get that we get farm eggs uh yeah and uh they're wonderful

914
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:22,800
anybody who can get farm eggs please do they are significantly different than a store-bought

915
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:27,800
egg uh at least in my opinion not everybody thinks that but i do well it's based in science

916
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:35,800
too um partially because well if you get a true egg like a farm egg yeah it does not

917
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:42,000
have to be refrigerated no they do not but if you get a store-bought egg it has to be

918
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:47,000
refrigerated because they run them through like the bleacher or the sanitizer and it

919
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:52,520
takes away layers of the shell to get rid of the the the chicken poop and it means that

920
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:57,960
it has to be refrigerated because it loses that structural integrity of the shell yes

921
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:02,480
so i don't know it's it's weird anyway america does not want you to be healthy that i think

922
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:06,760
that's the point of the episode i mean basically you don't want to eat mcdonald's every day

923
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:12,240
that's for damn sure well yeah or a quick trip uh in this region you know i got i got

924
00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:18,760
so sick off of uh uh like a gas station i don't know like a burrito or something i got

925
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:25,120
like such bad food poisoning that i i refuse to eat anything from a gas station that isn't

926
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:31,000
like a bag of chips that's been like dude i cannot tell you a lie uh during like the

927
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:36,200
first six months of covet i was very concerned right so i basically didn't want to go grocery

928
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:43,200
shopping so i basically ate a quick trip exclusively for like six months and i gained 45 pounds

929
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:50,560
in six months from eating at quick trip yeah and on them like in hindsight i was like what

930
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:55,720
an idiot you know like yeah just get it delivered to your vehicle at the grocery store and go

931
00:57:55,720 --> 00:58:01,320
through the extra steps or go into the grocery store you know what a moron we all make stupid

932
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:05,720
decisions you know i don't know that the food delivery and stuff was really a thing and

933
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:11,320
it wasn't where i live yeah it wasn't where i lived at you know now it is but yeah now

934
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:15,320
it is it wasn't even really here at very at the very outset of that you know what i mean

935
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:20,760
like the very the first uh first few months anyway everybody had to shift all right this

936
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:25,520
next one is the plant-based diet i don't know how that's different than veganism or whatever

937
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:30,240
but it says here uh humans have kind of always followed a plant-based diet early humans are

938
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:36,040
opportunistic omnivores so you're upping your overall plant intake and avoiding or minimizing

939
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:42,640
animal foods yes so many different diets fall under this like raw food vegetarian vegan

940
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:50,160
and mediterranean and flexitarian oh god flexitarian

941
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:57,440
so i read uh the china study which if okay people haven't it's very interesting uh read

942
00:58:57,440 --> 00:59:04,200
it was a 25 year uh case study in china and it tracked the diets and the health outcomes

943
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:10,560
of chinese people yep and it supports like a plant-based largely plant-based diet as

944
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:17,160
being healthier okay it didn't track other trends like smoking and drinking and processed

945
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:25,160
foods and sure other seriously important factors you know but they found that eating a largely

946
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:31,200
plant-based diet is healthier yeah which makes sense you know because if you think about

947
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:37,440
a meal right like should your meal be mostly vegetables with some meat or mostly meat with

948
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:42,600
no vegetables and should those vegetables be potatoes or should they be you know cauliflower

949
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:49,360
or collard greens or you know kale or something yeah you know i'm guessing that uh the majority

950
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:56,760
kimchi uh with a small amount of extra is better for you than like a pound of uh generous

951
00:59:56,760 --> 01:00:01,920
those chicken and like some rice you know yeah so says the pros eating mostly plants

952
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:06,160
means you're eating fewer processed foods there's no limitations you just up your plant

953
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:11,440
intake and you don't have to completely eliminate animal food the cons are that a plant-based

954
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:16,560
diet still needs to be balanced you carbs fats protein uh not fruit all day refined

955
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:21,520
grains added sugars of vegan fast food or plant-based but not necessarily healthful

956
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:25,920
and some people have sensitivities to popular plant-based sources like the next one is the

957
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:31,280
primal diet have you heard of the primal diet no but i'm sure it's some gimmick i mean to

958
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:35,400
an extent most of these are you know i don't know maybe it may be what we currently eat

959
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:41,760
is a gimmick too oh it definitely is definitely a gimmick by big sugar i thought like early

960
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:48,880
empire was all based on sugar production right like this slave trade was based almost entirely

961
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:54,560
on producing sugar for europe uh and other spices so anybody who wants to say the sugar

962
01:00:54,560 --> 01:01:00,000
is not an addiction well the slave trade existed for sugar so i don't know what that would

963
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:04,880
mean other than addiction yeah and anyone who wants to say sugar is not an addiction

964
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:09,360
you try cutting out your mocha frappi a lot of a lot of chinos or whatever the fuck they're

965
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:15,200
called and then you tell me if you're not addicted to them oh my sugar or my sarah my sugar my sarah

966
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:20,400
went through sugar withdrawals i mean she is your sugar she is my sugar yeah she went through sugar

967
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:26,480
withdrawals and i've gone through sugar withdrawal like just cutting out like going from the quick

968
01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:31,760
trip diet to like trying to eat healthy i went through sugar withdrawal like immediately like

969
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:38,160
i could feel it you know so the uh the primal diet it's similar to the paleo uh it emphasizes

970
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:43,120
eating whole foods restricting grains and sugar and it also takes cues from what our ancestors

971
01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:48,400
would have eaten unlike the paleo diet the primal diet allows full fat dairy legumes and night

972
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:54,480
shades in moderation and only if you tolerate them so the pros are it allows a variety of high

973
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:59,840
quality whole foods and it minimizes processed foods but the cons are like other diets you got

974
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:05,680
to pay attention to how you feel after you eat these potentially inflammatory foods and i was

975
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:10,080
going to say like the other thing about like what our ancestors would have eaten their lifespan was

976
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:16,080
not what our lifespan is i'm not saying it's it's all the food but you know sometimes having good

977
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:22,880
food is good you know right people people romanticize the past yeah 200 years ago the

978
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:30,240
child mortality rate was 50 so we've definitely we don't live in the same world so it's not really

979
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:34,880
relevant data yeah all right this next one i don't know that i'm gonna like because i don't like

980
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:40,960
picture uh it's called the raw food diet oh i've heard of that so proponents of the raw food diet

981
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:46,080
believe that cooking food destroys its vitamins and nutrients that's true that some nutrients are

982
01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:51,360
lost when certain foods are cooked but cooking can also make food easier to to digest reduce

983
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:55,840
anti-nutrients and even make certain nutrients more available most foods in this diet are plant

984
01:02:55,840 --> 01:03:00,560
based and never heated above a certain temperature it's not all raw broccoli and care sticks raw

985
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:05,280
foodists use devices like high-powered blenders and dehydrators to prepare their meals which means

986
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:10,320
you can still eat foods like smoothies dried fruits and butters but please don't eat raw chicken

987
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:15,680
that seems like a gimmick as well yeah so pros you're going to eat a lot of plant-based foods

988
01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:24,800
i don't know how that's a pro but sure uh eating more fiber promotes uh say say s a t i e satiety

989
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:31,440
satiety so you feel fuller longer cons are eating raw or minimally heated foods may increase your

990
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:36,640
risk of foodborne illnesses please cook your food all the way do not eat raw chicken uh it's

991
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:41,520
inconvenient especially if you're getting out uh just bring me the raw steak please uh and may

992
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:46,960
be difficult to eat enough of your daily calories and here's the one i wanted to talk about finally

993
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:54,480
the south beach diet the south beach diet emphasizes food with a low glycemic index or

994
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:59,040
foods that have minimal impact on bullet sugar levels it's also broken down into phases even

995
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:04,400
though it's a low carb diet it's not uh not intended to put your body in ketosis so the

996
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:09,440
pros are it encourages mindful eating a lower carb style of eating may help you enter ketosis

997
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:15,120
and it includes convenient options like an app and prepared meal options but the cons are the

998
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:19,920
costs associated with it because you have to buy their products you can get keto flu symptoms

999
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:26,000
during the first phase that sounds great sign me up for the keto flu please and prepared meal

1000
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:30,000
options are not always ideal for people with food sensitivities because you just get what they give

1001
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:36,000
you so now here's one it's called the slow carb diet have you heard of this one i have not this

1002
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:41,040
one's developed by the author tim ferris and he's written some stuff i think i read one of his books

1003
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:45,440
but of course like you have to get into the like the diet stuff right to make money i guess uh so

1004
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:50,240
this one came out in 2010 the slow carb diet claims to promote rapid weight loss by following

1005
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:55,040
a six days on one day off structure you eat unlimited amounts of food from a certain list

1006
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:59,760
then you have one day a week to eat whatever you want does it restricts food like white carbohydrate

1007
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:05,840
which eliminates rice or fine flour and bread and fruit which is high in fructose so pros eating

1008
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:11,520
the same meals the same few meals reduces decision fatigue it allows one day week to eat whatever you

1009
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:16,880
want cons having the one cheat day may encourage binging behavior and it's difficult to follow in

1010
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:24,880
social situations absolutely i do have a note for a cigar i'm getting flaking on the cap oh like i'm

1011
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:30,640
getting some uh leaf coming off the outside of the cigar oh i am not which i'm getting i have like

1012
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:37,520
about an inch inch and a half something like that okay yeah i'm about there maybe a quarter

1013
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:43,920
inch behind you but i'm not getting any flaking but my last cigar like i mentioned kind of started

1014
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:50,560
to unravel but mine also just went out so i'm gonna have to relight i've relit this one twice i think

1015
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:56,480
okay but i've also been talking so i'm not sure if it's the cigar just me and my smoking but right

1016
01:05:56,480 --> 01:06:00,880
all right this next one we're getting near the end here now uh this next one's called the zone

1017
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:06,480
diet i mean most of these i haven't heard of uh the zone diet is designed to promote hormonal

1018
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:13,520
and anti-inflammatory benefits by putting your body in a physiological state called the zone

1019
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:20,400
so that sounds like bullshit to me but uh to get there you eat about 40 percent carbs 30 protein

1020
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:25,840
and 30 fat with every meal you also restrict grains and starches so the pros are it minimizes

1021
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:30,800
consumption of grains and starches and it reinforces the importance of omega-3 fatty acids

1022
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:36,400
uh the cons are it discourages food high in saturated fat even though grass-fed red meat coconut oil and

1023
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:41,280
grass-fed butter can support a balanced diet but eating every five hour mitigates benefit of

1024
01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:47,280
intermittent fasting and it encourages low calorie consumption this next one we didn't talk about the

1025
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:52,720
vegan diet yet did we we mentioned it we didn't discuss it yeah this next one is the vegan diet

1026
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:59,120
i guess uh the word vegan was officially coined in 1944 but it's closely associated with vegetarianism

1027
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:04,400
you avoid all animal products pros are you fill your diet with plant-based foods uh growing

1028
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:08,880
popularity means it's easier to follow there's a lot of like every restaurant we go to has the

1029
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:14,400
the v in the little circle for vegan right so it's not difficult to do uh but the cons are

1030
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:18,720
eliminating all animal foods without adjusting your diet may increase your risk of nutrient

1031
01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:22,800
deficiencies and it's not inherently healthy so you still need to make sure you're getting enough

1032
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:28,560
macronutrients and micronutrients so from what i've heard a lot of people on vegan on a vegan

1033
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:35,280
diet or a vegetarian diet even still need need to up their uh vitamin intake to make sure they're

1034
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:39,840
getting all the stuff they still need right it's like a not it's a diet that's available because

1035
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:46,400
of modern science it's not something that your body wants naturally no uh the next one's

1036
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:53,520
vegetarianism um i don't know we need to like uh you know i guess it says here historic roots so

1037
01:07:53,520 --> 01:08:00,640
practiced by uh pathoric uh patharagus sorry pathagoras yeah pathagoras there we go uh in

1038
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:05,120
ancient greece so you eat more plant-based whole foods it means you're getting more antioxidants

1039
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:09,600
and micronutrients and there's different styles of vegetarianism to suit your needs but the cons

1040
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:14,720
are eliminating meat without adjusting your diet may increase your risk for your deficiencies and

1041
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:19,280
it's not inherently healthy many foods are technically vegetarian but they're not nourishing

1042
01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:24,400
like refined grains and highly processed foods yes now here's the one you wanted to talk about

1043
01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:30,080
is weight watchers yeah boy i don't know anything about weight watchers to be honest with you

1044
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:34,800
well i don't know either other than they've got like everything's got like a value right

1045
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:41,360
and you have you eat x number of like value like whatever the points are right i think so i don't

1046
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:45,760
know i've never done it i don't know anything about it i've known some people that have been on it

1047
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:50,000
weight watchers teaches people how to apply healthy eating practices they've got in-person

1048
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:54,160
online coaching and it's easy to stay within your goals by checking the point values of different

1049
01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:59,120
snacks and restaurant meals on the go so the pros are it's highly structured but it's flexible

1050
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:03,440
uh it's built in support system and designed to teach people how to maintain healthy habits

1051
01:09:03,440 --> 01:09:09,280
not just lose weight not just lose weight and then cons are there's a monthly cost depending on your

1052
01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:13,040
program because you can go and subscribe to whatever it doesn't account for potential food

1053
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:17,920
sensitivities and the point structure may not be ideal for people with negative relationships with

1054
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:23,680
food uh the whole 30 diet it's uh it's less of a diet and more of an elimination framework to

1055
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:30,640
change your relationship to food you eliminate grains alcohol so that's right out for me sugar

1056
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:36,880
legumes and dairy for 30 days and you instead focus on eating nourishing whole food based meals

1057
01:09:36,880 --> 01:09:41,600
hence the whole 30 name at the end of 30 days you can stick to the plan's principles while you return

1058
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:48,000
to your regular diet and hop back on to the whole 30 when you want so i guess at least it accounts

1059
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:53,760
for you might not want to do the thing for the whole time so you've got the uh the pros you

1060
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:58,400
eliminate foods that commonly contribute to food sensitivities popularity means it's easy to find

1061
01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:04,720
recipes and whole 30 compliant ingredients and there's extensive uh online support the cons are

1062
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:09,040
requires to get better to go cold turkey at least for the first 30 days and it can be difficult to

1063
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:15,760
balance eating out and cooking whole 30 meals requires planning and time it does it does uh

1064
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:21,520
what is your cooking schedule in your week what does that look like uh when i need to eat i cook

1065
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:27,040
and then i eat but i mean what do you mean well like so when i lived alone i tried to prep all

1066
01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:35,440
my meals on like sunday and then they would either be already cooked or prepped so i could cook them

1067
01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:39,600
like you do in a restaurant and i've been trying to get back into that because i cook

1068
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:45,920
most of the meals we eat at home yes yes yeah it's easy to fall out of that habit the cooking

1069
01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:50,640
yeah yeah go ahead oh just because i do a majority of the cooking we've experimented with a lot of

1070
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:57,040
different things we did we used to do a lot of like uh freezer meal prep so we would get all

1071
01:10:57,040 --> 01:11:01,680
these recipes for freezer meals and then we would spend like two hours on a weekend or something

1072
01:11:01,680 --> 01:11:04,880
like prepping all these freezer meals and then all you'd have to do is like toss them in the slow

1073
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:11,440
cooker or whatever you have to do and then go from there and we kind of have gotten away from that

1074
01:11:11,440 --> 01:11:17,120
and now we kind of like if we have enough food to make meals for the week we just kind of do those

1075
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:22,320
it's a little more lackadaisical now it's a little tougher to manage with our current like schedule

1076
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:27,520
and everything but we're also trying to like settle into like the schedule but i know that

1077
01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:33,680
it's better for us to have a plan of what we kind of want to eat for the week when we go grocery

1078
01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:37,840
shopping instead of like saying what do we want to eat tonight and then going out and getting the

1079
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:42,080
groceries for that and then coming back and doing it because we end up spending a lot more on

1080
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:47,680
groceries if we don't have a plan than if we do have a plan but we don't really do much meal prep

1081
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:54,080
other than we know that if we do tacos one night we'll have enough meat left over to do like quesadillas

1082
01:11:54,080 --> 01:12:02,320
or nachos another night so sure yeah yeah and i try to do like sunday i try to do all my slicing

1083
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:08,560
and dicing get everything into containers throw it in the fridge i cook what i can and then i try to

1084
01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:14,880
have a mixture of stuff i can mix together and make a meal and not have to do any cutting and

1085
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:19,760
then also stuff i can just throw into the microwave or into the air fryer and heat it up and be done

1086
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:27,040
yeah depending on what we're doing do you do a lot of manual chopping yeah i enjoy uh working on a

1087
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:31,840
cutting board yeah so we do a lot of manual chopping though we do have a food processor

1088
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:37,040
which i wish we would use more because like it's real quick and easy it takes a lot of like the

1089
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:42,960
laborious time consuming stuff out of it but also it's like kind of a pain to clean so i'd like to

1090
01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:49,840
do a lot of stuff in it to use it you know what i mean right yes i do as a side note i have like

1091
01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:55,200
three quarters of an inch of my cigar left and it's very good at the end uh in my opinion but

1092
01:12:55,200 --> 01:13:00,320
it's getting very hot yeah it's getting hot i'm um i don't know i gotta be like an inch and a half

1093
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:06,880
left and it's it's hot but it's still good yes do we have any more diets or are we finally cashed

1094
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:12,560
that's it man or cash in the diets perfect what are your thoughts on all the diets common theme

1095
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:18,000
is to eliminate processed food which basically means don't eat the standard american diet yeah

1096
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:23,840
which is hard you know especially if you're working out in the world you know and you want to eat a

1097
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:29,120
lunch and you didn't bring one yeah yeah and a lot of it seems to be like a lot of the cons are like

1098
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:34,320
this is difficult to do if you're eating out and so i think like another common theme is maybe don't

1099
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:39,360
eat out a whole lot because it's not super healthy it's definitely not even if you're going to like a

1100
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:44,000
sit-down restaurant they still are putting tons of salt in that you know and butter oh way more

1101
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:51,840
than you would uh at home for sure oh yeah i cooked at restaurants for a decade and you would never

1102
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:58,000
make food like that at home ever uh with the butter and the salt and the sugar like just throwing

1103
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:03,920
sugar in you know the mashed potatoes at the restaurant are so good because they mix in potato

1104
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:09,360
and then they throw in a lot of salt and a lot of butter and then they put in potato flakes to

1105
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:14,480
thicken it up that's why it's so thick and fluffy because they add in fake potato flakes to like

1106
01:14:14,480 --> 01:14:21,040
fill the body oh okay yeah yeah like you wouldn't do that at home most likely absolutely not yeah

1107
01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:28,400
right i did do something like and this is this is oh man uh i had a co-worker and he loved to eat

1108
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:34,240
and he would say oh yeah this is total uh fgm that's total fgm and uh that's an acronym but

1109
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:39,040
it stands for fat guy move so i did a whole fat guy move the other day and i was like oh yeah so

1110
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:43,120
my daughter wanted uh mac and cheese and i was like sure yeah let's do mac and cheese and we

1111
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bought this big fucking big cosco bag of uh real bacon bits you know what i mean like just bacon

1112
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bits in a bag like bacon bits so i've been having like bacon bits on everything right so like yeah

1113
01:14:55,600 --> 01:14:59,440
yeah okay we'll do we'll do like mac and cheese just to grab mac and cheese and we'll do bacon

1114
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bits and like you know what i'm gonna try and like one up this so like i boiled this mac and

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01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:09,120
cheese but i put chicken bouillon in the water to boil the mac and cheese noodles or the noodles

1116
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right and so it's like salty chickeny noodle taste with the cheese and the bacon bits it's a total

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fat guy move it's good oh yeah well every time i make mac and cheese at home i add extra cheese

1118
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:30,720
for sure yeah yeah i yeah i still think like with all the diets and everything i think the biggest

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thing in america probably is just the portion size i mean and the processed food and stuff but like

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portion size alone like if you look at the portion size like like one box of mac and cheese is

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supposed to feed like three or four people one box and it's like oh well if more than two of us are

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eating it is two boxes for sure like that's that's crazy talk you know and you go out to these you go

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out to these restaurants and it's like you get this plate and the plate weighs like five pounds

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and you're like well i'm paying for this i'm gonna eat the whole thing and it's full of salt and

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butter so of course i'm gonna want to eat the whole thing and then you're like oh i want an appetizer

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and i want dessert too and i'm gonna have two three beers you know like no wonder like no wonder so

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yeah even going out to eat once a week can throw your diet off and you're gonna gain weight

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you know you're just going to unless you're extremely active yeah i mean that and that's

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the one thing like most of these diets never mentioned was like bump up your activity like

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get on the get on the bike or elliptical or whatever like go for a walk but that's the whole

1131
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:38,960
thing is like a diet alone isn't going to do it for you long term like you also have to you have

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to have what you can can maintain and you need to be more active especially if you've got a desk job

1133
01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:49,920
you know even if you're home with a desk job you still need to kind of get up you got to move you

1134
01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:54,560
got to do stuff and i don't do enough of it like that's part of it right and a standing desk i

1135
01:16:54,560 --> 01:17:00,960
don't think is going to do it alone no the standing desks are big now but yeah and they're nice um but

1136
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:05,040
you still got to be active you got to move you got to get that heart rate up every once in a while

1137
01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:12,880
right i have a standing desk and i don't know if i've ever used it to stand so yeah maybe once

1138
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well how often are you at the standing desk though once a week at most maybe once every two weeks

1139
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:28,160
so yeah it's it's difficult to watch largely sedentary is it no no it's not it's not uh out

1140
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:34,080
of every two weeks i do one day of paperwork usually yeah and uh it requires multiple computer

1141
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:39,920
screens so standing up and it's just not really conducive to it to manage multiple windows all

1142
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at the same time yeah my cigar is cashed by the way yeah so i'm about to put mine out i got all

1143
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:51,040
the way down to a half an inch it was good the end was the best part so yeah this one's this one's

1144
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:57,600
been good there's other ones uh that i have liked more uh at least recently like the hoia black and

1145
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:06,400
the uh cao consulier consigliere consigliere sorry but uh this one's this one's quite nice

1146
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:11,600
it definitely makes up for the under crown so yeah i think so yes i think anything where

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01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:16,240
jewer states will actually put their name on the cigar is probably better than one that they won't

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right right i think that's it for the episode everybody be safe have fun for listening

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get out of here go on be safe have fun thanks for listening