Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What up? What up? Welcome back to the Bad Podcast, Brad and Dwayne. We are your first stop shop when it comes to distractions and chitty chat. We literally almost had the whole show without hitting record. But welcome man. Happy Monday, Happy Tuesday. Whenever you're listening, wherever you're at in the big beautiful world, I'm stillness from Brad.
We appreciate you joining us, Brad. What we're talking about today.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: Well, you know, we've been on this podcast for 10 minutes without hitting the record button and we're gonna actually talk about distraction.
And I have an excerpt out of my new upcoming book, Prep Rep Forever.
The essence of the grind doesn't just demand your time or your body. It demands focus. Belief in the ability to keep going when no one is watching. And every fiber of you wants to quit.
[00:00:50] Speaker A: Don't quit.
[00:00:54] Speaker B: Are you ready? Are you ready?
[00:01:10] Speaker A: What it looked like, would it be like what it do in here? Another episode of the Bad Podcast, Brad and Wayne and man, super excited to be back in here. Another episode. Episode 150, Brad. 150 episodes we've been jumping on, lining up, I mean all kind of stuff, man. We've been trying to figure this thing out and having fun and all the things, brother. So I'm excited about that. So that means we're coming up on three years we was talking about. This part of the 10 minute pre show conversation is the three year anniversary of the Bad podcast. And, and Brad, tell them what we're thinking about doing, man.
[00:01:47] Speaker B: Man so December 7th just happens to be my 38th birthday.
And so the, the three year mark will be on December 8th, which is just again, wild. Man, I didn'.
We started so close to my birthday three years ago. So on that three year mark, folks, we're gonna do a big celebratory three year podcast. A celebration of birth of not just me, but of the Bad podcast. And let's do a bunch of giveaways, man. Let's do some hats, some sunglasses, some swag, man. We got all sorts of things that we can give away, but let's, let's really make this one a big one. It's three year mark. We'll stream it live.
So, so right now folks, get your cell phones out, get your, if you're like me, get your calendar out, get your pencil and mark us down for December 8th because we're going live on December 8th and we'll, we'll drop a time on when we're going live on that date.
[00:02:38] Speaker A: For sure, man. For sure. I'm excited.
Who knew you know, we'd still be going at this thing three years in the game.
Super cool. You know, I, you know, podcasting, I've been doing it for a while, and that's one of my things is like sticking around, man. So I, I'm not surprised, Brad, you know, but, but no, I'm just excited and, and it's all been a joy and fun, man. So before we jump into the topic, man, I have to always shout out everybody man that's been watching and listening. We appreciate you guys. We always want to make sure, you know that and, and you know, it's not just our celebration for three years, it's yours as well. You've been rocking with us. A lot of y' all are day one bad listeners, and we appreciate that.
So make sure you tune in and, and like I said, we'll have a lot of. Get a lot of giveaways and, and, and all those things, man.
[00:03:31] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I. Thinking about three years of staying in the game and staying so consistent in that three years, I, I think of a lot of podcasts that have come and gone. I think a lot of people that have come and gone. And you know, the topic we're going to talk about today is distraction. And, you know, a lot of people do get distracted. They, they have this grand concept, they have this great idea, and then once they begin, you know, their, their attention is pulled this way, their attention's pulled that way, and they just can't stay consistent long enough to have that breakthrough. And, and we haven't necessarily had that breakthrough, but we are providing value on, on the daily, and that's what we're going to talk about today. We're going to really provide some value. Like, this is going to hit home for a lot of folks. So, you know, I always try to relate a lot of the, the podcasts that we do and the lives that I do, you know, for E2M and just, you know, in, in my life in general, I try to relate it to my life. And I had a friend reach out to me recently, d and he said, I'm doing the exact same thing I was doing before.
I'm just not getting the same results.
And if that's you, I want you to take a, you know, take a step back in your life. I want you to do the third person point of view. I want you to look down upon yourself.
Are you distracted? Are you over stimulated? Because we live in an age of overstimulation. We have our cell phones, and I got mine right here. We have Our cell phones in our hands at all times. We have.
[00:04:56] Speaker A: Do you really, Brad, hold on, let me pause you there. Do you really have your cell phone? Because there's. Brad. Brad, A delay takes you now that, I mean he either he's just gonna respond right away or going it's gonna be a few hours like spongebob a few hours later.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: I'm a spongebob T texter because I will read a text and if I don't have an immediate response or if I don't know the answer right then and there, I gotta keep that sucker unread. I gotta go back and do the unread boy and, and keep that unread. Otherwise I will.
Yeah, it's gone.
This sucker is always with me.
Yeah, but you know, I, I, I, I've been there, you know, as far as, is the overstimulation thing. And, and, and when you are always nervous about something or always stressed about something or always overstimulated by something and in cell phones.
So right now with my finish line formula, we are doing a 30 day reset and it's a mental reset, it's a emotional reset. And the reason that we're doing it is, is for me to get away from my cell phone. And it's an accountability contest or challenge, but I'm trying to get away from that cell phone a little bit because I can feel that over stimulation.
And the reference that I used a couple weeks ago is jumping into traffic. You know, traffic is going in 100 miles an hour and if you get up and the first thing that you do is look at your cell phone, whether it's social media or your emails or your text messages, it's like jumping that traffic and trying to keep up with the 100 mile traffic versus you know, taking a look at it, you know, doing some reset breaths, coming back to base, finding yourself internally versus jumping out into society and, and getting right into the rat race.
It's doing this is really messing with your, your sympathetic nervous system, your, your cortisol levels, your blood sugar levels. You may be doing the same thing you were before physically, but deep down inside your, your, your nervous system has taken over essentially. And you know, without, because I'm, I'm not certified in, in talking about this, I just know through the, through the fitness world and in the, in the health world, I do know that your sympathetic nervous system takes over, essentially elevates your cortisol levels, elevates your blood sugar level and there's a reason you're doing the same thing. But you ain't getting the same results. And it's because you're stressed, it's because you're overstimulated, it's because you're distracted by technology.
[00:07:32] Speaker A: Brad, that's so many, so many directions.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: So cut me off at one point.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Once I start, I mean, like, we gotta break this thing down.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: Break it down.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: So first I'm gonna start with the, the cortisone thing and the adverse effect in the bodybuilding world. Actually when you are in prep, you know, that's something you have to watch because it, it will cause you not to lose weight, it'll cause you to retain water.
Your body goes in fight or flight mode.
And so like a lot of times, I mean, I only did one show, but you know, I follow a lot of guys, like before they step on stage, like they're taking naps, like they're trying to keep the cortisone low. You know, get that, you know, getting extra sleep because if it goes up because there's a lot of pressure and a lot of tension, then your ads won't show as much. Your retain water, you know, your, they call it spilling over. You know, you won't have the, the dry, you know, thin skin look. And all that is, had nothing to do what you ate because they ate perfectly. These are elite guys.
They, they're counting rice grains. Like it's that kind of, you know what I'm saying? It has nothing to do with your training because these guys are spending hours in the gym. That's what they do for a living. Like they live for that, that big check.
It all comes down to your cortisone levels and your stress levels being able to maintain that.
And so if you think about it, if it affect elite athletes like that, how much more is it going to affect regular guys like ourselves that, you know, if we, if we get stressed and we let everything, the world pop and, and we're not eating perfect, you know, we're eating the best we can. We're not in the gym hours a day because we got a regular job to work. So, you know, whenever. I don't know who the person was, but whenever they said that, you know, that's probably the first place I would look.
Is your stress level. Like, how can you, you know, can you reduce it? You know, how can you, you like, be conscious of. Because sometimes, Brad, sometimes once you're conscious of it, then you begin, you can make steps to correct it. And, But a lot of times people don't even know. And, and, and now we're you know, we might be educating somebody or even if that person is listening, you know, now they can be conscious of it because that one thing can cause you, I mean, you can do everything right. And if you are stressed, you will not drop a pound. You may gain a pound.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: You know, you will not, you know, see the results that you're looking for, man. So, you know, I'm gonna let you talk, but I think there's a direction we should go with that. But go ahead.
[00:10:16] Speaker B: Yeah, no, this is, this is perfect.
And you had mentioned being so spot on with your diet. Like, these folks are getting paid to be on stage and if they're, if they're measuring at the micro level, you know, per grain of rice, but if they're not recovering, if they're not prioritized that recovery, their sleep, that kind of thing, and they're seeing that body change, like, well, not you because you're on stage. But for me, like I, you know, I have a, a bag, a handful of chips or, you know, a handful of cookies, whatever.
You know, if I, if I compound that plus the stress and the lack of recovery, like it's going to have terrible adverse effects. So I just, I, I just googled real quick factors that increase cortisol, lack of sleep, over training, caffeine illness, injury, poor diet, medication, you know, and I, the reason that I wanted to go there is because you had mentioned change, right? When you look in the mirror, you see change. No, not really. You never see the change into that. One day you're like, whoa, aha. And then, and then you're, you're conscious of that, just like you had said, you have to be first conscious of it. But what happens is you're stressed a little bit on day one, and then day two you're a little bit more stressed and day three, you're a little bit more stressed. And what happens is, you know, sometimes that relates to procrastination, which in turn increases that stress level.
So I think, I think a lot of times with the, with the stress, you have to confront it head on. And not necessarily in the sense of trying to solve all the problems at once, breaking it down to that micro level, solving one problem at a time, taking action in one bucket at a time. See, in our society, in our world, a lot of folks think that they have to have their hands in multiple buckets and they do a little bit in this bucket and a little bit in that bucket and a little bit of this bucket, and that's going to solve the world's problems. That's not going to solve the problem. You have to have your hand in this bucket. Don't procrastinate in this bucket. Be excellent in this bucket.
You know, close that bucket and then move on to the next bucket and that will reduce that, that, that stress level. It will help with this, you know, this overstimulation and just rat race of a lifestyle and then it will bring those cortisol levels down. It'll bring that stress level down, it'll bring that blood sugar level down and it will help out with that body composition thing that you, you, you're supposedly lacking.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Yeah, no, for sure. And you know, you kind of touched on this before. You know a lot. For a lot of people, the phone brings stress. And I know this firsthand because there is a notification right now. To this day, there's a sound sound that if I hear it, my stress level go up.
And, and people that are still in corporate world, they know this sound, man.
[00:13:00] Speaker B: Please do tell. This sound. Do you have it on the.
Listen, I just had a sound go.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: Off on my, my right, it's that team's notification, man. That teams, that, that Outlook teams app or whatever. That notification, bro, if I hear it, it's like, yep, who won't? You know, because back when I was in corporate, you know, I had teams on my phone, I had teams everywhere and, and I hear that sound, bro, and my stress levels just, just went up, you know, just immediately, you know.
And I mean now we use text, you know, we're text. So yeah, I, I don't know if it's a friend business or nothing. I don't know who. So it's a little bit less stress though if you think about it. Because it's just a text notification, you know, so. Yeah, but, but yeah, it's amazing how the phone and we talk about distraction, how that in itself, you know, just, just a sound can, can cause stress to go up, can cause cortisone levels to change.
And just thinking about it to myself right now, like I might like ditch my phone. Like the day, the night before the show. You know what I mean?
[00:14:14] Speaker B: Like, absolutely.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: Just thinking it through like, because I wanna, I'm really trying to, you know, make a good presentation. Like I might just because. And I was gonna say this when you first started talking about it, everybody knows I have my phone with me all the time. Like everybody around me, you know, it's, it's the running joke, you know, Dwayne always on his phone, always.
My wife has finally surrendered to Understand that I'm always, it used to be like close to fights, but now. Because work is on it now for sure.
But Brad, I would.
Long as I know. I mean, if they, if they're with me, I'm, I'm even better. But if my kids, my wife and my parents would. And we would all move to North Dakota in a cabin, no phones, I would be happy.
I would be happy as a goose because all I need to know is that they're okay. Like, yeah. At the end of the day, the reason I have my phone is to make sure my people are okay. As long as I know they're okay. B, I don't need, like, I, I tell my wife all the time, face the social media is not a real place. Like I, I have, I don't need it. Like it is. No. Like, I have to get this stimulation and I know this is, Listen, we getting distracted.
But I had to put that out there because a lot of people know me synonyms with phone. That's the case. But I promise you, I don't need it long as I know my people good.
I'm like, I, I could never get on social media again and be happy.
[00:15:49] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:15:49] Speaker A: As long as I know everybody's safe. Yeah.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: Well, let me know when you're going to move to North Dakota. I'll be getting the cabin next door to you guys and I'm bringing the fam out to nb.
Dude, that sounds like an absolute dream. And you know, just a recommendation when, when you get close to that stage, I, I almost recommend and encourage to almost wean off of that because if you just like cold turkey and maybe, maybe, maybe it won't affect you or impact you. But if you go cold turkey with that, I'm just putting my phone in a box and I'm not going to touch it for 24 hours or whatever. Maybe that wouldn't impact you. But for the normal person, that would probably might actually have reverse effects. I don't know.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: So that makes sense because we see it with our kids like that is the ultimate punishment is taking their device. Right. I take their devices like end of.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: The world.
[00:16:46] Speaker A: You know, and so. Okay, golly, I. So many times. Yeah. So my era, the mid 40 to, I mean 40 to mid 40, we are, and no offense to anybody, we are the perfect technology era because we have a great blend of both. We grew up without it, we became adults with it. And so that's why I tell my dad, I don't advise this and I don't do this often.
We can text and drive because we learn how to drive and text around the same time.
Yeah. You know, because old people, they, they. They just learn how to text.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:27] Speaker A: Right. Young people, they just learning how to drive.
[00:17:30] Speaker B: So.
[00:17:30] Speaker A: And then. So same goes with dependability on the device. We grew up without a device, and so it's easier for us to say, nah, we're good, as opposed to my kids that freak out when they see a commercial and they. That they can't skip.
[00:17:45] Speaker B: Oh, my.
[00:17:46] Speaker A: Oh, my.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: Dad. Dad, King Kong. Dad King Kong. This is a commercial, buddy. It says there's 20 seconds left in the commercial.
What's 20 seconds? Can we count? I'm like, you can if you want. I ain't going.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. So to your point, if you are. If you are in the. The. The latter of the group, you may want to wean yourself off.
[00:18:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:11] Speaker A: Um, it could be. You could find out that. It could be a little. It could actually add stress.
[00:18:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:16] Speaker A: And discomfort just if you try to go cold turkey with that.
[00:18:20] Speaker B: Yeah. And, and I mentioned the, the finish line formula, the. The challenge that we're doing right now, and it is essentially a digital detox. It's a cell phone detox, technology detox.
And what I'm encouraging my. My clients to do is just start the first five to 10 minutes without your phone.
That is. It's so natural. It's a coping mechanism really, to, to, you know, I always, you know, you go to a movie and you're in line or you're standing waiting for somebody, like, when I go and pick up my kids from school, everybody, like, they'll be talking to somebody, hey, how you doing? Good to see you. Blah, blah, blah. And then as soon as the. As soon as the conversation goes stagnant, it's get the cell phone out, hoping mezzanine. It makes you feel good, right? Yeah, it gives you an outlet almost.
But so that's what I. That's what I was going to say is try to start the first 5, 10 minutes of your day without your cell phone. Because again, it's like jumping in traffic at 100 miles an hour and trying to keep up with that traffic.
And it really. It really puts in. That puts us in that comparison game. Because if I get on social media first thing in the day and I see that Dwayne has made a social media post, and I've seen Mandy's done a social media. Well, guess what? Now I got to make a social media post. And then I go. And I go into my other social Media outlet. And I see this and I try to do that and it's just, it's a rat race lifestyle. But if you start the first five to 10 minutes of your day with no technology, no cell phone, no, no nothing, it will really help with those cortisol levels, it will help with that stress level. And then take that five minutes, turn it into 10 minutes, take that 10 minutes, turn it into 20 minutes. And then you know what's, what's going to happen is you're not going to be so reliant on that technology or that device and then hopefully in turn you're going to know down the road it's not really a coping mechanism. It's not that outlet. You don't need it. And I'm trying to be better. When I go and pick up my kids, I try to leave my cell phone right in the truck. And it's hard for me to do that because, you know, just like you, I'm attached to that thing. Like I always feel like, well, I'm gonna get that one message, it's gonna change my, the trajectory of my day. Well, listen, five minutes without that message probably not going to matter. Like, like you said, like if it. I pretty much know my wife is, is in good, good safekeeping, my kids are in good hands. Like, I pretty much know that my people are taken care of.
That, that that text message or that email can wait five minutes.
[00:20:41] Speaker A: Yep. Yeah. No, 100. And yeah, I, I try to be conscious of it as well.
You know, walking the kids up to the building, you know, unless, unless something's going on. Like we, because we, we have our little, a little emergencies here and there, you know, and I have to, I have to lock in. But other than that, I try to be conscious of that. And then I also noticed like I, I try to do the same thing in the morning for two reasons. I mean, one, not that like I said, jump into the 100 mile an hour traffic, but two, it makes me late to the gym. Every time.
[00:21:19] Speaker B: Every time. One, one post at least every 25. Yes.
[00:21:23] Speaker A: Every time, bro, if I, if I open my phone because like, like, okay, this, when I get up because my wife is still asleep, I get my clothes, I go to the bathroom, close the door, turn the light on, and I weigh myself and then I'm posing for at least two or three minutes. Like I gotta practice my posing. Yeah, if I grab that phone anywhere between the shower and them clothes, it's a wrap. I got a little stool in there. One time I sat down in that stool.
And it was like, my wife was like, you still here?
8 o'.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: Clock, 8 o' clock in the morning. Right?
[00:22:01] Speaker A: But, but yeah, I, I definitely, you know, it's really important to, to find that balance, you know, because I, I, for one, can tell nobody not to be on the phone, but. Because, you know, I am like, I'm always on the phone, but.
But again, I could not be and be happy. No, no issues there. But I really want. I, I, like, it's funny because I remember when y' all first introduced that challenge, and I was like, don't we want them posting on social media? Like, why are you trying to put a phone. We need it for business. Yeah, but I guess, you know, that. And honestly, that goes to our compassion for our folks. We want them to be better, you know, no matter what, you know, we. And, and in the long run, it'll still benefit everybody, not just them, but us as well.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: Yeah, that's, that's a great call out, Dwayne, because that's, you know, at the very foundation of what E2M is and what you are, what I am. We do want to take care of our folks. And, you know, health is wealth, baby. You know, wealth. And if you can keep that stress level down, you know, that's, that's going to be one of the big answers in, in big, big, big parts of the equation to, you know, really live a fulfilling life. And let's leave these folks with a call to Action man, you know, once this podcast is over. So this, you may hear this first thing in the morning or mid, mid afternoon or at night.
As soon as this podcast ends, put your timer on for five minutes. Put that cell phone out of reach, put it somewhere you're not going to go and instantly grab it and just spend five minutes with your kids or your parents or your, your aunts, uncle, somebody close to you. Yeah. Pats your pets. Absolutely. Five minutes, just detached from all technology.
It may be a challenge. And I'm going to tell one story before we get out of here. So my sister was one of the first people that had a cell phone that I Knew it was 2001. 2000 somewhere in there. 2002. We were in middle school, and one of my good friends in high school, we bet my sister 20 bucks she couldn't go a day without herself on a school day without her cell phone. So I don't know, 7 to 2 o' clock or something, and she's like, oh, yeah, easy 20. She lasted about 30 minutes, started gnawing on her fingernails. She started chewing her fingernails. She ain't a fingernail chewer. Yeah, but it's amazing what that detachment will do to somebody. So just take that one and, you know, apply it to wherever you need to apply it and.
5 minutes, 2001.
[00:24:35] Speaker A: What was she doing Playing Snake on the Nokio phone? Like, oh, man, she.
[00:24:39] Speaker B: She was a texting theme.
Just. I mean, she. She had 2001. Who was she texting? I don't know. Not me, because I didn't have a cell phone. Like I said, there was, like, when I was in school, one of my best friends had a cell phone. My sister had a cell phone. That was the only people at my school that I knew immediately. The headphones. But outside of that, I have no idea who she was texting. She might have been texting herself. I have no idea. But she. Yeah. 30 minutes she lasted before she started, like, just going ham on her. On her fingernails. So five minutes, folks. Detach yourself from all technology, and you'll see those benefits. It ain't going to happen overnight, right? We've mentioned this a handful of times. Just like fitness, you're not going to see results overnight, but, you know, every day, just get away from your cell phone for five straight minutes, not five scattered minutes.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: All right, y', all, till next time, out of here.
