Speaker 1: Nothing matters and what if it did? It's one more thing.
Speaker 2: I'm strong. One more thing.
Speaker 1: That's the name of a John Cougar Mellencamp album, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Is that the name of an album?
Speaker 2: Yes, it's absolutely an album.
Speaker 1: Nothing matters and what if it did?
Speaker 2: It is checking? Is that John Mellenhead? I think as
Speaker 2: we used to call him back in the Midwest. Yep,
Speaker 2: but it's melonhead.
Speaker 1: But before we get to nothing matters and what if
Speaker 1: it did?
Speaker 2: R F.
Speaker 1: K Junior, our Secretary of Health and something or other
Speaker 1: and Pete Hegzet the Second Deaf, had a bit of
Speaker 1: a fitness challenge thing they were doing yesterday to try
Speaker 1: to get the whole presidential fitness thing off and running
Speaker 1: and emphasize fitness. Here's a little bit about that.
Speaker 2: Him, Robert John Jr.
Speaker 1: You're the secretary, I mean here was secretary exists in
Speaker 1: the Department of Avez.
Speaker 3: So we had our big, big big body challenge today.
Speaker 2: Fifty pull ups, one hundred pushups you can try to
Speaker 2: get under five minutes.
Speaker 1: How'd you ever got close? Twenty five? You were right
Speaker 1: behind me, so uh the numbers on that if you
Speaker 1: didn't catch him. Fifty pull ups, which would take me
Speaker 1: a month. Yeah, and one hundred pushups, which I could
Speaker 1: do in uh, you know, in a half an hour,
Speaker 1: probably in under five minutes. He didn't quite get there. Now,
Speaker 1: Pete hegseeth is forty five and in super shape and
Speaker 1: was doing pull ups and everything like that. Still, you know, impressive,
Speaker 1: but freaking RFK junior seventy one and I was watching
Speaker 1: him crank out those pull ups. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Well he's a roid.
Speaker 1: Boy, right, yeah, but still he's seventy one.
Speaker 2: And he's wearing jeans, and he's wearing jeans at the
Speaker 2: gym like I do at the gym. Right, those most.
Speaker 1: Who believe in wearing dungarees to the gymnasium, yes, were
Speaker 1: you wearing cowboy boots as well to the gym? I
Speaker 1: was not.
Speaker 2: I was wearing gymnasium shuresses and leave the boots. Yes.
Speaker 1: The problem with setting the standards too high. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is what the presidential fitness thing was like
Speaker 1: when we were kids. You set a standard that nobody
Speaker 1: can get. It's something you learn with goal setting business.
Speaker 1: If you can't reach the goal, it's meaningless. You don't
Speaker 1: motivate anybody to do anything. And like, if you have
Speaker 1: a goal of fifty pull ups, I don't like work
Speaker 1: toward it. I just think, screw it. I'm never going
Speaker 1: to be able to do it. So you have to
Speaker 1: have a realistic goal for crime out loud. I would agree, yes,
Speaker 1: certainly sub goals that you can reach. It was funny though,
Speaker 1: I mentioned during the end of the radio show that
Speaker 1: I'm watching Quarterback on Netflix. Their charming Peyton Manning produced
Speaker 1: you know, documentary on NFL quarterbacks. They like highlight three
Speaker 1: of them per season and follow them through the season, the.
Speaker 2: Ups and downs and injuries and stuff like that. Truly
Speaker 2: couldn't compel this season, oh, the most recent season. Joe
Speaker 2: Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals. I'm handsome as can be.
Speaker 1: I'm a Borough fan.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, me too, A really interesting guy. Uh, you're
Speaker 2: putting me on the spot here. It was with the Rams.
Speaker 2: Now with the Detroit Lions doing great, got traded for
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford. Michael helped me here. I can see the face.
Speaker 2: I can't. I know me too, me too. It'll wait.
Speaker 2: They ja Red Goff. They chant his name all around
Speaker 2: the city. They chant whenever they see him, Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: That's interesting that you couldn't remember, but when you chanted,
Speaker 1: you could remember.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, well that's why people you can remember
Speaker 2: stuff set to music. And then the third one is
Speaker 2: a handsome fella used to be quarterback from Minnesota's Now
Speaker 2: with Atlanta Square jawed Christian uh Father Kirk Cousins Cousins,
Speaker 2: thank you very much, Michael. Anyway, I can't remember which
Speaker 2: it might have been. Cousins said, I pursue perfection. Maybe
Speaker 2: it wasn't Cousin. It doesn't matter. I sue perfection because
Speaker 2: pursuing perfection is the only way you get to excellence. Interesting,
Speaker 2: but that's different than a number of push ups. It's
Speaker 2: just thought. I thought of that when you brought that up. Well,
Speaker 2: I think it's and I'd rather not say this out
Speaker 2: loud because of the derision it will and should bring.
Speaker 2: But obviously, if you're doing I don't know, a podcast
Speaker 2: or radio show, you're trying to make it perfect so
Speaker 2: that it's excellent. It will never be perfect, that's clear.
Speaker 2: Eliminate all mistakes and f ups and boring parts and
Speaker 2: the rest of that's the goal, clearly.
Speaker 1: Huh, where were we?
Speaker 2: I can't even do a pull up? Can you believe
Speaker 2: that I'm doing a lot of assisted pull ups. You
Speaker 2: ever seen that machine, a counterweight machine.
Speaker 1: I think that thing is great the same, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: then you can at least do them. Yeah, I use
Speaker 1: the resistance bands attached to the bar. I was going
Speaker 1: to a fancy gym that had those machines where you
Speaker 1: could do dips or pull ups with a little assistant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was great. The gym I go to now is
Speaker 1: pretty much just giant hunks of metal and bar, so
Speaker 1: it doesn't have the fancy stuff. But yeah, can you just.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and say you're in prison, Let's just be
Speaker 2: honest about it, Jack.
Speaker 1: Right now, he's broadcasting from cell block C. That's right
Speaker 1: from when I defrauded an inn caper. That one time
Speaker 1: I went to two movies for one price a dark Day, Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's that, and then this other thing I wanted
Speaker 1: to get on here. This is a little Instagram reel
Speaker 1: I came across a Jerry Seinfeld that I thought was
Speaker 1: really interesting.
Speaker 2: I've always had the skill of extracting the essence of
Speaker 2: any object I study, be it scientology, judaism, zen, yoga, meditation.
Speaker 3: Right on this Marra Aurelius is my new one. The
Speaker 3: Roman emperor who wrote a book called Meditations, which was
Speaker 3: the beginning of Stoicism, and that that's my obsession now
Speaker 3: is Marcus Aurelius. He had this fantastic philosophical observations.
Speaker 2: On life, and you've learned what from that.
Speaker 3: That everything that you're worried about is going to be
Speaker 3: gone like that. The people that you that are criticizing you,
Speaker 3: they're going to be gone. You're going to be gone.
Speaker 3: All this hand ringing worry and concern over how are
Speaker 3: people viewing me? And uh, someone said something bad about
Speaker 3: me and you get so upset about it is wasted
Speaker 3: time and energy. Marcus Aurelius says, your only focus should
Speaker 3: be on getting better at what you're doing. Focus on
Speaker 3: what you're doing, get better at what you're doing. Everything
Speaker 3: else is a complete waste of time.
Speaker 1: I thought that was damned interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I agree, And I'm really interested in Stoicism
Speaker 2: and read a fair amount about it. It's interesting how Stoicism,
Speaker 2: or like Buddhism, being you know, completely at peace and
Speaker 2: very zen. The rest of it is not far off
Speaker 2: of nihilism. True, it's a bit of a horseshoe theory. Thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they all get to so much of what you worry
Speaker 2: about doesn't matter, So stop worrying.
Speaker 1: Is it possible to get very far down the road though,
Speaker 1: of letting go of worrying about crap you should worry about.
Speaker 1: And I think about it. I was thinking about this
Speaker 1: the other day before. So I heard that Seinfeld thing
Speaker 1: two days ago, and I've been it's been on my
Speaker 1: mind a lot. And i'd had in the last week,
Speaker 1: I'd seen a couple of little kids between the ages
Speaker 1: of like two and four doing their little kid thing,
Speaker 1: like in the park or at stores or whatever. Nobody
Speaker 1: lives in the moment, like a four year old or
Speaker 1: a two year old. I mean, they are one thousand
Speaker 1: percent invested in what they're doing at that moment. They're
Speaker 1: not thinking about, you know, what is the point of this,
Speaker 1: Or it's gonna be hot this weekend or whatever, or
Speaker 1: a lot of people think to me, you're making this
Speaker 1: mud pie, yeah, Or I sure wish I had a
Speaker 1: new car, you know, Am I going to pay that bill? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or just well paying a bill at least there's something
Speaker 1: important there. A lot of the stuff you worry about
Speaker 1: just has no value whatsoever. I mean zero value. Is
Speaker 1: there a reason we age out of that and can't
Speaker 1: get back into it at all? As much as O
Speaker 1: kid in the park, And I thought, God, it would
Speaker 1: be if I could do that for ten minutes. How
Speaker 1: refreshing would it be to be completely in the moment
Speaker 1: without dwelling on stupid crap?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think some people do return to it. Yeah. Indeed,
Speaker 2: in older age you realize it's you know, the cliche,
Speaker 2: but it's a good one. Is the three stages. You
Speaker 2: worry about what other people think of you, then you
Speaker 2: don't worry what other people are thinking of you. Then
Speaker 2: you realize they weren't thinking of you.
Speaker 1: Yes, Michael, No, I agree with it what Joe said.
Speaker 2: When you get much older, you get to a point
Speaker 2: where you don't care what you say. Oh, and that
Speaker 2: is my favorite stage of people.
Speaker 1: That's why I love that. My thirteen year old keeps
Speaker 1: talking about I can't wait till I'm old and I
Speaker 1: can just say whatever I want. We'll walk by a
Speaker 1: group of people, he say, you know what I would
Speaker 1: say if I was old.
Speaker 2: I just love it.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, well there's that, but uh huh, And I
Speaker 1: suppose it doesn't a lot of it doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 1: So that's one way to let go of it. It
Speaker 1: never did matter, is the thing. It never did matter.
Speaker 2: That realization that it never mattered. Maybe that clicks And
Speaker 2: if anybody else got hung up on this, because I
Speaker 2: was thinking about it for a second or two. But
Speaker 2: Jerry Seinfeld saying the only thing that matters is to
Speaker 2: get better at what you are doing. To do that, well,
Speaker 2: the obvious retort to that is all that'll be gone too.
Speaker 2: So that's a waste of time and meaningless too. I
Speaker 2: think the answer to that is no, that's really the
Speaker 2: only true joy and satisfaction you can have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a waste of time to pursue something
Speaker 1: and get better at it. It's meaningless over in the
Speaker 1: long run of history of time.
Speaker 2: But we just get a long run. No, you know,
Speaker 2: we get a short run, So talk to me about
Speaker 2: the short run. With all due respect to those who
Speaker 2: are going to come in six hundred and fifty years,
Speaker 2: I wish them well, but that ain't my problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know that living in the moment. If
Speaker 1: you've had any luck with getting better at living in
Speaker 1: the moment, please text your email. I would like to
Speaker 1: get better at that. I meditate all the time, like
Speaker 1: I've talked about in the air a lot, and it's
Speaker 1: helped a lot with like even keel and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. But living in the moment, it hasn't
Speaker 1: improved any I don't think I want to be like
Speaker 1: a three year old at the And all I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about is how green the grass is? Not they they overwatered.
Speaker 1: It is probably my tax money in the blood, you know,
Speaker 1: just wherever else goes, take mushrooms. That's the answer. Take mushrooms.
Speaker 2: There you go. That's and that's an answer. You know.
Speaker 2: It's funny. I've been sitting on this article for a while.
Speaker 2: Of all people, Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas,
Speaker 2: has become this big time, forceful advocate for It's it's
Speaker 2: not mushrooms. I think it's eyebill gain one of your
Speaker 2: hallucinogenic drugs.
Speaker 1: That's what Joe Rogan's talking about all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to treat PTSD in particular among service people, and
Speaker 2: and and it's really interesting. It's funny because I saw
Speaker 2: the headline the Long Strange trip of Rick Perry, the
Speaker 2: former Texas governor and Trump Energy secretary. Oops Oopsy has
Speaker 2: now dead, dicated his life to promoting the powerful psychedelic
Speaker 2: eyebogain and I thought, wow, that's wacky, that's crazy. Is
Speaker 2: he a lobbyist or whatever? But no, as it turns out,
Speaker 2: it's really really interesting, and he is seriously concerned about
Speaker 2: people because he's had some psychological problems that he never
Speaker 2: talked about, kept it quiet like you do in politics.
Speaker 2: But he's seriously concerned about veterans especially. And I will
Speaker 2: tell you from talking to others who have experimented with
Speaker 2: psychedelic drugs through the years, the way human beings look
Speaker 2: at life and experiences and what we're talking about being
Speaker 2: in the moment. That sort of thing is a long
Speaker 2: set of interconnected assumptions that you never think about anymore.
Speaker 2: They come to you automatically, and then you think the
Speaker 2: only choice is all right, what do I do now?
Speaker 2: Psychedelics can have a way of separating you from all
Speaker 2: of those assumptions that you make every day, and you realize, wow,
Speaker 2: a lot of what my mind has been doing has
Speaker 2: been a choice. It just doesn't feel like a choice anymore.
Speaker 2: And it's really helped folks with PTSD in that sort
Speaker 2: of thing, and not just from battle but you know,
Speaker 2: victims of crime and that sort of thing. You can
Speaker 2: step outside of your own experience and think, huh, that's
Speaker 2: not a good way to think about that, and it's
Speaker 2: up to me to think about it differently. So anyway,
Speaker 2: Rick Berry's real advocate for that.
Speaker 1: Wow, I remember, like a year or so ago.
Speaker 2: There's an addiction too. It can really help with addiction.
Speaker 1: There's some sort of story about like ninety eight percent
Speaker 1: of the thoughts you have are complete waste, like not
Speaker 1: needed at all. There's just random crap.
Speaker 2: Jeez.
Speaker 1: There should be a way to stop that, shouldn't there
Speaker 1: If you were are behind on an oxen with a
Speaker 1: with a metal plow two hundred years ago, did you
Speaker 1: have random useless thoughts or were you too busy toiling?
Speaker 2: Well? Are you both? I think you would focus on
Speaker 2: what you were doing, but as long as the ox
Speaker 2: was going straight, you would daydream a lot freking crooked
Speaker 2: ox Jesus, straighten up there, Oxy boy?
Speaker 1: What do you gotta pay to get an ox that
Speaker 1: will walk straight? When I was a kid, oxens walked straight,
Speaker 1: easy oxes. I don't know, Well, I guess that's it.