Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What up? What up? What up? Welcome back to the Bad Podcast. Brad and Wayne, and here I'm Dwayne and that is Brad. Brad, what's up, brother? How you doing today?
[00:00:09] Speaker B: What's up, Bad Warriors?
Hey, we're gonna. We're gonna. We're gonna talk about Halloween, and we're going to talk about the comparison is the theme of joy today, man.
[00:00:21] Speaker A: Listen, that. That, I like. That was a mixture between, I guess, the Ultimate Warrior and Macho Man. You had a little Macho man actually going there.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: Like the combo. I like. I. I like the combo.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Yeah. No, Macho man is. Is actually one of my favorites, man.
[00:00:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Y' all see where we're going today, baby? Let's have a good one. Let's get after it. Let's get it.
[00:00:50] Speaker B: Are you ready? Are you?
[00:01:07] Speaker A: What it looked like, what it be like, what it do. And here, another episode of the Bad Podcast. Brad and Wayne again, man, we are super excited to be coming through your speakers, wherever you're listening in your earbuds, your headphones, wherever you listen in the great, beautiful world. We really appreciate you guys tuning in and showing love, man. Big shout out to all the folks showing love. We definitely appreciate that, man. So we. We have a lot of conversations before we hit record.
Some airworthy, some not this morning.
And I was telling Brad, the, The. The hardest challenge with bodybuilding, it isn't lifting weight, it isn't diet. It's constipation, man, because of the. The limited calories and the. The really, I guess you could say dry food is not as fibrous, you know, especially in the late weeks. That is a thing that plagues me, Brian. Listen, Brad, I'm on. I'm being transparent, man. This morning, I'm sitting down on the throne, texting Eric, like, bro, something's gotta get.
Something's gotta check. Help me, brother. Like what?
Because the hardest part about it is you're trying to reach a certain weight for the stage, Stage weight. And so, you know, you kill yourself 60 minutes on the Stair Stepper, you eat on Plan Hardcore, you wake up the next morning because you didn't use the bathroom the day before, and you go up a pound.
How depressing is that?
[00:02:42] Speaker B: Well, I could certainly help you, Dee, and, you know, talk about transparency.
Last week, you know, and what I'm gonna try to do is do this weekly, but last week I. I had tested the waters with McDonald's and I. I don't eat McDonald's. I haven't eaten McDonald's probably in about a decade.
[00:03:02] Speaker A: Hey, McDonald's. Y' all want to sponsor, though?
[00:03:06] Speaker B: We'll take the sponsorship.
Yeah, I, it was, it was a nasty scene, I will say. And, you know, just, we should put up some, some, what do you call it? The, the, not the forewarning, but the, you know, the censorship joint. The censorship before this one, man. But you need help, go to McDonald's. I will tell you. I, I, I, I was at 1900 calories, and so I had a long ride. The ride, the ride was tough. I mean, no, no downplay on that. But the food and what it did to my, my insight, like, it just tore me up. It was, it was disgusting. And I, I think it'll be another decade before I go back to McDonald's.
McDonald's. No sponsorship.
[00:03:53] Speaker A: Sorry.
Yeah, no, no, I, I mean, you know, even if I wanted to incorporate it, like, like a thousand calories is my whole day. Like that. That is a day's worth of eating for me. Yeah.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: Nevertheless, you've seen that. You've seen that thing where they do the comparing of like, hey, this is a thousand calories. This is a thousand calories. It's like two. Two. Oh, yeah. Honey buns and like, 35 items over here. Just, you know, healthy, nutritious food.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it's.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: When I started counting macros, that's when that, that came a reality to me. Yeah, I was like. Because I, I'm a big, like you mentioned honey buns. Like, I'm a big honey bun guy. Like, give me, give me a white frosting in the microwave. Oh, and them joints are like 800 by themselves, bro. Yeah. So you say two.
That is, that is my daily consumption. Like, right now I'm at, I think I'm right at 1600. Might be 15 something.
So if I were to eat two honey buns while on prep, this close to the show, I couldn't eat anything else the rest of the day. So it's just mind blowing. And, and for those that don't know, like, on prep, I eat like five times a day. I got a pre workout meal, a post workout meal, and three other meals which all consist of whole foods. And so that lets you know how much you can eat and still stay in a calorie deficit, man. So this is a nutritional show, but we just being real, man, we just being transparent. But this episode is dropping right after Halloween, man, after Hallows Eve, you know, if you, if you dressed up or you put on your, your favorite costume. So me and my wife, y' all have seen it by now we're going as six, seven, man, where she's gonna be six, I'm gonna be seven. We, we getting in with the young.
[00:05:42] Speaker B: Kids, with the young bucks.
[00:05:44] Speaker A: Yeah, man.
[00:05:47] Speaker B: I don't want to talk about nutrition a whole lot more. I do want to talk about the Halloween thing. But, you know, the one thing that drives me nuts about some, some fitness influencers, some personal trainers is they promote certain products. And when you talk about macros and when you talk about calories, not all calories are the same. Like you said, two honey buns is like 15, 1600 calories. If you're getting 1600 calories, like, if you're thinking about it, well, if I'm at 1600 calories, I should be losing weight. And you, you probably perhaps could be losing weight. But at the end of the day, it's not really about weight loss. It's about a healthy inside and a healthy body. So when you look at 1600 calories or whatever your calories are at, you gotta look, are you getting the right vitamins, are you getting the right, you know, the right proteins, the right carbohydrates, right, everything.
And that's one thing that, you know, kind of bothers me about certain influences like, hey, take, take this, take this supplement and you will lose weight. Well, yeah, you may, but getting that, Are you getting the proper nutrition?
[00:06:51] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And I think a lot of people skip out on the nutritional aspect in exchange for the weight loss aspect. And that's something that, that you don't want to do for long term because, you know, calories are calories. That, that is no lie. Like, you know, I mean, not saying anybody should do this, but you could eat, you know, two honey buns, you know, for, for a week. There's been studies and, and lose weight and, you know, but your, your sugar intake and, you know, your body composition and your, your blood sugar levels, all of that's going to be affected and then you're going to be malnourished in other areas. But as far as weight loss, calories in, calories out is, is legit. And that's what Brad is actually proving with his choice of, of doing reels, you know, eating, eating the fast food and trying to burn it off. And then also, you know, we also have to warn the, the eating disorder because we don't want you to get fixated on, if I eat a thousand, I gotta burn a thousand like that, because this is a, again, we're going nutrition, man. That's a whole nother thing. So when you look at how many calories you burn. Your exercise is the smallest part of the pyramid. You know, you could burn a thousand calories in that exercise, but the bulk of your, that you burn is, like, moving, walking, talking, chewing, digesting, all of that.
So don't, don't get it confused. Okay. I'm gonna eat McDonald's, so let me go get on a treadmill for five hours. You know, don't do that. Don't do. Like, Brad is just showing an example.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: Example.
[00:08:37] Speaker A: Letting you know what, what you take in, like, how much work it take. But we definitely are not promoting any eating disorders.
[00:08:46] Speaker B: No. And, and you know, my, my reels and my challenge right now, like, I'm riding my bike that far regardless. I'm trying.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: Yeah, you got to do it anyways.
[00:08:55] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And I'm just tracking the calories now, but I'm just, I'm trying to shed some light and create some awareness around, you know, how much people are consuming. And people do that two to three meals a day.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: That's like 6,0 calories.
[00:09:09] Speaker A: Yes, bro.
[00:09:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Easy. Sick.
[00:09:15] Speaker A: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You go to McDonald's, you get a, a McGriddle, a hash brown, and a coffee. That's 800 right there.
You go to lunch, you get a, a Big Mac, some fries, and a drink.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: Can't even think about it.
[00:09:32] Speaker A: That's a G.
You go back for dinner, you get. This time, you get a double quarter, some fries, and a drink. That's another G, man. So that's like almost 6,000.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. No, it's, it's wild. And, and I, I really thought about getting a milkshake, and I think a milkshake's like, 500 calories by itself.
Yeah, I, I, I would have been at 2,400 calories with that.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: This is good, man.
[00:10:00] Speaker B: We didn't plan this.
[00:10:01] Speaker A: We did not plan this, y'.
[00:10:02] Speaker B: All. I promise.
[00:10:03] Speaker A: But I will say this because I, because thanks to Coach Eric, I've been introduced to flex dieting, so I understand how to work it in, because you're going to go to me. If you got kids, you're going to McDonald's. It's inevitable. Unless you, you train them. Right. Which most people have it. But if you go, there are menu choices that can help you get your. Actually hit your protein goals and stay in a caloric deficit. And I follow a lot of Instagram pages that do that. So if you're interested in that, I, we should put our own together, Brad.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Let's do it.
[00:10:39] Speaker A: All Right, There you go. There you go. So I'm, I'm gonna work on a fast food hack that'll help you hit your protein goals and keep the calories low. Y' all hold me to it and we'll put it out and we'll do a thing. But they're, they're in. The whole purpose of me saying that is not everyday lunch, dinner and you know, whatever, breakfast. But if you, there, there are choices you can make that won't sidetrack you and won't throw you off your, your fitness goal.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: So yeah, that was the.
I, I know we're gonna pivot. I know we're going to pivot. One of my favorite all time bodybuilders was CT Fletcher. And, and the guy died twice on the table.
You know, he, and he was notorious for getting done with a workout and going slamming like 10 cheeseburgers or something wild like that.
And you know, like prime example this guy was. If you guys don't know who CT Fletcher is, just go type in CT Fletcher. And I apologize in advance for the colorful language, man. He, he was motivational, he was beast. He was, you know, a positive ray of sunshine and.
Yeah, yeah, he is. Yeah, yeah.
[00:11:51] Speaker A: He, he actually hosts like different lift competitions. I got a friend of mine that does one of his.
[00:11:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I, I'd love to meet him, man. I, I don't know if I could handle him, but I, I'd love to meet him because he was somebody that I idolized way back, like in his old days. Yeah, I met somebody that kind of, you know, grooved my path for fitness because I was watching him, man. But then, you know, read a little bit further and deeper on him and, and heard of his story about doing the fast food and having those multiple heart attacks and dying twice on the table.
So just, yeah, you know, honestly guys, conscious effort, you know, and can you have fast food from time to time? Yes, do as I say, not as I do sort of deal.
And honestly, like, that's my, that's my cheat meal for the week. I don't, I don't go, I don't go to McDonald's four or five times a week. It's, it's fast food one time a week. Just to again, shed light on if you are consuming this. This is the amount of work that it takes just to, just to burn off that one meal. That's not the only meal that I'm consuming in that day. I'm eating two to three other healthy meals throughout that day to fuel some of my My long rides and my still. I'm still training. I'm still on my. I'm still on my treadmill twice a week. I'm still lifting three times. Like I gotta fuel all that training. But I, I did. I digress here a little bit.
I apologize. Because it was good though. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:13:11] Speaker A: I think something good came out of it.
[00:13:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: Out of our squirrel moment, man.
Shout out to the squirrels out there, man. You know, we, we chasing squirrels. Yeah.
[00:13:20] Speaker B: Oh, I, you know, I, I tend to do that from time to time.
[00:13:24] Speaker A: Hey, bro, I, I can ride with you. That's why we cool.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: That's right. That's right.
But you know, and this all sort of ties into, to what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about Halloween.
And in prime example, you know, with all of this stuff, can you have some candy here and there? Absolutely. You know, it's, it's, it's inevitable, right? You're gonna. Whoops.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: Unless you're on prep.
[00:13:45] Speaker B: Unless you're on prep. I, you know, I'm not a sweets guy. D. I, I will have one package of skittles and I'll be. I'll be good until next Halloween. Nice.
Yeah.
[00:13:56] Speaker A: I, I am the opposite.
I, I am the. The Sherman Clump. Waking up on the couch with the rappers everywhere.
Take the, the.
The thing we don't know, that is me, bro. When it comes to sweet, I. I.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: Have the image in my. That will be you. And third, well, when this drops probably what, like 10, nine days, eight days.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: So here's the thing, man. I, I promised myself that I would not live and learn. Yeah.
I went through a. A tough post show phase. And so I'm. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. This go around when it comes to reintroducing things back to my diets, just cause it. I mean the inflammation and swelling was aggravating enough. But I digress.
[00:14:54] Speaker B: All right, well, anyways. Okay. So the topic of the day. Welcome everybody. Good to see you. The topic of the day again, back to Halloween. Not sweet.
You know, everybody on Halloween, or for the most part most of us on Halloween will dress up as somebody else. A lot of times somebody as we idolize somebody, we look up to somebody famous, somebody that's well known.
And in these moments, you know, we almost fall into character, man. I, I remember a couple times I was Joe Montana.
Hey, sign me up for the league. Let's get this.
And you fall into that role sometimes. But a lot of us, we do that in real Life, you know, we're looking at somebody else and we're comparing our journeys to theirs, and we can't do that one. First and foremost, we all have different start lines. Like, I can't be where you are in the fitness game right now because you are at a completely different start line than me. You can't, you couldn't just on the bike and ride for four hours. Right now I'm at a different start line and we, both of us, we have different goals. So, you know, when you think about comparing your journey, when you think about disguising yourself and, and looking at somebody else and saying, man, I, I wish I could look like that, or I wish I could be as strong as that, that, that's not yours. You got to make your journey personal to you. Your goals are personal to you. Your life is personal to you. And I think we got to do a better job at making it personal to us.
[00:16:17] Speaker A: Yeah, no, we say it all the time, man. You can't compare, you know, your day one to somebody else's. Day 101. Sure.
You know, I, I, I don't secretly aspire to ride my bike from in New York to Florida. I admire that. But like, so I think about, you know, just being on different journeys, you know, because, because Brad, Brad does want to be a bodybuilder, just secretly.
[00:16:44] Speaker B: I do, I do.
[00:16:45] Speaker A: We all, we all know.
But, but right now that's his goals are, you know, this, this ride and, and you know, a lot of, a lot of distance training.
But like, like he said, he can't compare.
He can't look at, like, look like, oh, man, I'm not a bodybuilder. That's not your goal right now. That's not what you're chasing right now. That's not what you're doing.
You know, you have to be, be where your feet are. That's one of our favorite sayings on this show. You got to be where your feet are, set your goals. And I get it all the time. People reach out all the time.
Especially, you know, since I started picking up some clients and you know, it's like, man, I want, I want to gain muscle and then I wanna, I wanna shred it, be shredded.
It's like, which one we doing?
Are we, we're going to gain muscle phase or we're going in the shredded phase? Like, because you can't, you can't do both. I mean, you can and super slow it it, you, you will be fatigued from the process because body composition is slow. Adding and Losing at the same time is super slow. But anyway, but it's about finding out what that goal is. You know, it's about, you know, your, your favorite Instagram person, they have a different journey, they're, they're on a different step, they're in a different place than where you are. Then you're, you're starting, you, you see this coach that you like, you or this person you follow, you cannot compare yourself. I mean, you can dress up like for Halloween, but at the end of the day, you gotta, you, you gotta be where your feet are and you gotta, you know, know, know your journey.
[00:18:20] Speaker B: 100, man, it's, and it's damaging to look at others and say, I want.
It's not damaging to want that, but to compare yourself to that, it's very damaging. And one thing that I've been struggling with is, you know, a lot of the social media influencers that I follow are personal trainers, fitness enthusiasts, like built dudes, right? And right now I'm skinny.
I'm skinny. And it's the mo. It's one of the most frustrating things that I experience as a personal trainer because I don't like being skinny. Like, when I did my iron man, I remember we were in Washington or Philly, I can't remember which one it was, but I remember a guy walked up to me, he goes, man, you're a lot skinnier than I thought.
You know, I just, I just did a really long, long distance endurance event challenge and. Yeah, but you know, that's, that's one of those things that, that damages me a little bit emotionally and mentally because I do follow a lot of folks that are deep in the, the fitness space and that, you know, they're muscular. A lot of these guys are very muscular, right? And that's that deep down, that's what I do want. But, you know, with the philanthropy side of me, you know, if I could find a bodybuilding idea to, to raise money, to raise funds, to raise a awareness for something, I, I may do it, you know, and who knows what next year will bring. But yeah, that's one of the most frust frustrating things is to compare to some of these folks that I'm seeing online. And it, it does damage me a little bit, a little bit emotionally and mentally. But I know what my goal is. I, I know that I have to express gratitude and where I'm headed because this is, everything that we do is temporary, right? Like this, this, this phase will pass in June. I'm going on a, I'm going on A quest. I'm going to gain. I'm gonna gain 30. I'm gonna gain 30 real quick. But. But the. But the healthy. Gain 30. The healthy.
[00:20:08] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's. That's cool. You know, here. Here's something funny, man.
The boss man, Jeff, his, like, biggest concern, like, you talking about one of the most confident, you know, positive, you know, boost everybody up. But his number one concern is appearing skinny. Like, that is a fear of his long neck.
[00:20:31] Speaker B: He says, I don't want that long.
[00:20:32] Speaker A: Yeah, long neck. Like, you know, being skinny. Long neck. But. And the funny thing is, like, you know, he grew up skinny, so when he actually was able to gain some size, but when he did competitions, you know, it turned him down and he said he had a long neck. But anyway, the. The. It's just so ironic that we all have, like, these little things about ourselves that, you know, we like, you know, because everybody had it. You know, he wanted everybody to kind of trim down a little bit for the photo shoot. And he was like, man, I just. I don't want to be called skinny. I don't want to be skinny.
You know, not knowing that. And I'm like, bro, like.
Like, you're not skinny. You look good. You know, but everybody has that thing, man, even with me, you know, somebody, I think skinny might be the thing for me, especially now in prep. Like, I, like, don't call me skinny or small. Somebody actually did that this weekend, actually.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: And I was like, oh, you're getting shredded toning up.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta change the language.
But no, it's. You can't let those things derail you. You know, you're human. It's going to affect you.
Like Brad said, you know, you're gonna see. You're gonna see stuff. You're gonna. You know, you're gonna. What they call it? Covet stuff.
You're gonna want something that somebody else has, is you're human. It's part of your human nature to do that. The difference is your response. How do you respond? Do you respond by quitting something and trying to chase something else? Because that happens so often. We'll start something and we see something. Oh, let me go to this one. Yeah, let me go to this one. You know, I give them. I give them a workout. Okay, what we doing next week? Same workout.
Like, are you going to do that or are you going to stay the course?
Find out what your potential is in that ring, and then once you get that place or you find that place that you figure it out. Then like, okay, now I want to chase this one. Like Brad's doing it. Like he said, if you figure out a way to incorporate bodybuilding and philanthropy, you know, look out Ron Ronnie Coleman, Ronnie Bradley, you know, but it's, I, I think it's just super important that you respond correctly because I will not act like it's not going to happen. We're not acting like you won't be derailed. Everybody strolls. So subscribe. So look, everybody look through social media.
So you're going to, I, I found myself doing it. I see guys, you know, that are, you know, either been in the game for a minute or whatever.
And, and you have to like, okay, that's nice. I'm not in that phase right now. Let me redirect.
[00:23:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I, I like where you're going with that because I think a lot of times we, we see the, the experienced bodybuilder or the experienced long distance endurance runner or cyclist or that person that's just been in the fitness space for 20 years. Well, if you haven't been in that space for 20 years, you can't have the expectation. It really distorts reality when you're looking on social media, people, because, you know, even, even deeper on this conversation, you're seeing the highlight reel like it's, it's Halloween three days ago.
You're gonna see everybody's best Halloween picture. You're gonna see their best, right? You don't, you don't see anything else but the best. And that's what social media does, is it's a highlight reel of somebody else.
You, you can't compare to that because you don't know what they're doing behind the scenes. You don't see their, their, their lowest moments, you don't see their highest moments. And I think a little bit of that steals your joy and your momentum.
[00:24:09] Speaker A: No, 100. 100. You don't see how many thousands of the same picture that they took that they didn't post. Trying to get it right.
[00:24:18] Speaker B: Well, too, you know, with AI today. Oh, bro, you don't know what you're looking at.
[00:24:23] Speaker A: Anyways. Yeah, that's real.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: I know we're trying to land this plane, but my sister sent me this thing the other day. It was an alligator that like walked up to this little kid and the mama came out and was like, oh, no. You know, so I've seen 55 of those since then and they're all, they're all AI generated. I saw this one. This, this guy was sitting in the water and There was sharks swimming around him. He was in his backyard. You don't know what you're watching. So don't distort reality by by looking at something else and saying, wow, that's real, first and foremost and wow, I want to be that person. Secondly, you, you take a step back and say, first, is that reality, and second, if it is real, you know, you don't know what's going on behind the, behind the curtain.
[00:25:05] Speaker A: 100. 100. It could be. AI. Yeah, it could be. I mean, you know, there's people that exposed were for modifying their bodies, you know, it could be, it could be. What do you call it? Airbrushed? Photoshopped.
[00:25:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:22] Speaker A: Or like my favorite character on duck Darn. He said crop dusted this. Crop dust, man.
Crop dust them into this picture.
[00:25:32] Speaker B: I saw, I saw. I mean, this is years ago, but this guy, he. He painted the lines on his. On his belly. And this guy was a big guy, but he was, he was laying on the beach and there was a picture of this guy. And like, at first glance, you look at him like, holy cow, that guy's ripped. But then you're looking, you're like, wait a minute.
As the eye black one, one line down the middle, three lines across, like, wait a minute, that guy ain't ripped.
[00:25:58] Speaker A: He's.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: He's a hefty fella.
Yeah. Airbrushed, Crop dusted.
[00:26:03] Speaker A: Yeah, man, be careful out there.
Who you compare yourself to?
Yeah, that's good.
[00:26:10] Speaker B: Hey, man, compare yourself to who you were yesterday. That's the ultimate. And make it personal because this is yours.
[00:26:17] Speaker A: That's the way to end it right there, buddy Piece.
Yeah, boy.
