Rock'n'roll, Rock'n'roll.

Happy Monday.

Happy Monday the 8th.

Today's the 8th.

It is crazy that we are in the last month of 2025.

It feels like literally just yesterday, I mean, not just yesterday, but not too long ago that I was ramping up for 2025 and now I'm ramping up for 2026, yeah.

Yeah, time has been flying.

Big time.

It has.

I want to when we so I do a manifesto every year, we'll talk about that.

I think we alluded to that last time we recorded and we'll flesh that out probably right before the new year, going into the new year.

But one thing that we should do on a upcoming work podcast is I've got a list of all these monumental things that have happened every year since I decided to just be the best version of me that I can be.

And if every a year go by, a year goes by without me doing something that scares me, it's a failed year.

Like I have to do something outside my comfort zone and like impressive every single year.

And I've documented that for several years now, so.

That's where the growth hides.

That's where the growth hides, where the girls hide and.

No, in the in the scary things.

Oh yeah, 100.

Percent The things that excite you and scare you at the same time, yeah, you know are going to be worth it.

For sure.

So we should, we should make that not this episode, but a upcoming work podcast, like go through each year of something of the big things that we've done.

And I think that'd be, yeah.

That'd be cool.

So from day one.

From day one, we'd have some big things for 2026.

We got some big things like now though, like we, I thought we'd talk about this a lot on this podcast of all things we're working on.

But it's fitting because this is the work podcast and that was why we designed this to begin with, like to have a behind the scenes, real time view as to what else happening day-to-day.

And we've had a lot of things hit the fan all at once.

It's it's literally like.

Chaotic right now.

Everything is coalescing at this singular point in time, and it all makes sense.

There's nothing that will work on this.

Like, yeah, we, we, we're, we should not allocate bandwidth to that.

Like, everything's like, OK, we got to get this done.

It's important.

We just need more bandwidth.

We just need more bandwidth.

Yeah, that's all good stuff.

Yeah, it's super good.

What do you want?

To start with the very first thing we got a date for the Northern.

Northern Wow, we've got so much going on.

My brain is.

Everywhere the Natural State Savages, we got a date.

We got a date for 2026.

Same venue September 19th, 2026.

September 19th, 2026.

So put it on your calendar if you're thinking of competing or if you just want to come for an awesome, awesome show.

Yeah, we we've actually had several people been just asking when is it going to be, when is it going to be?

So we made a little Instagram story post last week as soon as we heard or was that was that today?

When did we do that?

My my brain is all over the.

Place anyways.

There's a couple of people that already responded to that and said sweet, no, I can start planning my competition season and they're going to put it on their calendar, so pencil it in.

WNBF Natural State Savages pro qualifying in Fayetteville at Theater Squared.

Yes.

And we'll probably do the same hotel, venue, we need to call them.

There's a couple things we need to do.

So just an order of events.

What we need to do is we have all that feedback from prior competitors, prior audience members, prior judges, prior event staff from last year's show.

We've already kind of gone through all that feedback.

We're going to go through it again with a fine tooth comb to see if there's any things based off that feedback that we would want to change for this year.

All the feedback was overwhelmingly positive though.

So like we could literally do the same setup stuff and I don't think there'll be any issues, but just for covering all of our bases, we'll do that first.

Once that's been done, we will.

I've already reached that to the tanning company, their game for that window.

I need to hear back from the polygraph still and the photographer, and then I need to call the hotel and book that time frame.

But the venue has verbally confirmed that that week, that that weekend is ours.

So.

And it is not a football weekend.

It is not a football weekend, so that's positive.

Hotels would be a little bit easier to get in and out of.

Hotel rates will probably be less, excessive traffic, parking, all the downtown chaos.

Will be way different.

The only bad thing about this next year's show thus far that I can that I can grasp is that it falls on the same weekend as Lisa Lums competition.

She's in Portland OR so I don't think it'll affect the competitors too much.

But she was an amazing judge that we had judge our show and we had the A-Team judging staff.

So I hate that we'll not have at least her, maybe some more of them, who knows.

Yeah, that posse of judges.

They're all based in the.

North they may.

All beat her show, Yeah, So if there's any.

Judges listening.

Yeah, I mean, maybe not.

We may get all, but at least I'm not sure.

I got to just throw that e-mail out there and see what happens.

But even if we don't get them, we'll get the A-Team judged.

Like we're not going to leave anything to chance there.

So that is that is big news.

The official date of the show September 19th of 2026.

I'm excited.

We've even had a couple of volunteers who helped out this year chime in and say they're down to help out next year.

So.

Thank you guys.

Definitely.

It's only going to grow.

What's the next thing you want?

To talk, we are working on that retreat.

I think we mentioned a little bit of this mud run meet up coming up at the end of February, the very last weekend in February kind of it goes into March, it's like the 28th and 1st or whatever.

Yeah, So that is finalized as far as the I've already booked the group package for the mud run.

I've already booked the Airbnb which is free.

The Airbnb is slick.

It's.

Sleeps like 20 people.

21 I think it sleeps 21 people.

We'll probably cap it like 15 people I would imagine, but it it sleeps 21 people.

There's like a massive I mean it's on nearly 100 acre ranch.

They've got horses and Longhorns there.

They've got a mule like the one you drive, not like the animal mule that you can ride around the farm.

So that's cool They.

Could drive the animal too.

Yeah, I guess, I guess so.

They've got a pool there.

They've got like a tennis quarter.

Basketball.

Court.

They've got a pool, billiard room, they've got a massive kitchen.

So the Airbnb is like perfect.

It's I'm not sure.

I'm not sure how far it is from the mud run.

I mean, we looked at it on a map.

Yeah, it's not very far, but it's also in close proximity to a barbecue joint and to another gym there, right There's.

The when I googled gyms in the area, I think there was a whole.

Bunch of several that popped up.

So we're going to do that.

So the mud run itself is going to take place on Saturday morning, I think Saturday morning, maybe Saturday afternoon.

I got to send them a few more details, but we'll have them.

We've booked the Airbnb from Friday afternoon until Monday morning.

Typically what we've done in the past is everybody will leave Sunday evening and then Monday morning is left for us to just like clean a little bit more and just kind of have some time to, yeah, check out.

And but like the, the retreat itself will be Friday afternoon till Sunday evening is how long it'd be open for the the people that attend.

And it's going to be awesome.

So we've got to get that landing page finalized.

We got the expert speaker lined up.

We're getting some details on that with them and then we'll be off to the races with that.

So that is all set up an official.

We haven't finished the landing page where people can actually purchase it yet, but that will be done and we'll have that done this week.

Yeah.

And for the if you guys are wondering about the dates, it would be Friday the 27th of February through Sunday the 1st of March.

Yeah, which chip, by the way?

We need to film that landing page promo sizzle video for promoting the Retreat.

Probably film that at some point this week because that'll go on the landing page that will finish this week as well.

So we'll get that done so people can start signing up for that again.

We're capping it probably at like 10-15 people.

First come, first serve.

People that are in the tribe get a pretty hefty discount, so if you're in the tribe that.

Is a huge discount.

Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be like the pricing we've, we've already done all the math.

The pricing's gonna be 1500 bucks or 1000 bucks if you're in the tribe.

So you're basically saving 500 bucks if you're a tribe member.

So lots of perks to be in the tribe.

And if you look at the cost that we're charging, like we're not making any money off these retreats.

Like the Airbnb that I booked was not cheap paying for the group package, The mudroom was not cheap.

I'm covering everybody's food while we're there, so it's like all expense paid once you get there.

Yeah, so that 1500 actually gets your entry into the Tough Mudder.

Yeah, it gets everything.

Gets you meals, gets you camaraderie.

It's, it's the, it's the community aspect of it and just kind of hanging out with people like minded.

And yeah.

Guests.

I mean, we crunched.

Speaker and all that kind.

Of stuff, yeah.

We crunched the numbers on it and it was like if you were going to just as your own individual go sign up for Tough Mudder out of, you know, your local vicinity, what you would pay in hotel fees, groceries or restaurant during that weekend's time.

The cost of actually running the Tough Mudder, it winds up being like 1000 bucks.

Basically, we're charging 1500 the general public or 1000 for tribe members, but you're also getting the expert speaker, all everything included and then all the camaraderie and like the stuff that we're going to be doing there.

It's.

Fun like the the pass retreats that we've done.

It's so cool just hanging out in a big, you know, Airbnb together and doing all the meals together and activities.

We're going to be can do some like hiking, exploring and all that kind of stuff.

There's a pool, we can do some cold plunging in the morning beforehand or Sunday morning or whatever.

They're just good vibes.

Like my goal with these, I'm not trying to make a dime.

Like I don't want to lose money, but I don't want to.

I'm not trying to make any money and like I said, I don't want to make any money, but I'm not trying to make any money.

My goal with these is to simply break even, but create an awesome experience for people to make memories, learn, and just create relationships that they benefit from going forward.

That's the profit right there.

Yeah, 100%.

So there's that.

What else do we get?

White chocolate.

Peppermint.

White chocolate, peppermint.

You guys have been teasing it.

Yeah, you guys have.

Probably seen some content because this is going to go live on Friday, but by that time there'll be some emails and some social stuff going out.

But white chocolate, peppermint, we have been creating.

We made a ton of them, thousands of them last week.

We're going to make a whole bunch more this week.

So we're going to be rocking that one on Sunday the 14th.

Yep, Sunday the 14th noon Centrum, we're launching white chocolate pepper medicaetobrig.com So good.

And this is my favorite flavor.

Like people literally always ask me what my favorite flavor is and I always say I love them all.

They're like my kids.

I can't pick just one.

This is my favorite flavor.

Mine too and I've been hoarding my very last white chocolate peppermint from what the last release was like 2 years ago 2.

We didn't launch it last year.

It was a couple years ago, 2-3 years ago.

I've been hoarding one because I'm like OK if this never comes back.

I still got one on reserve.

Now I can eat that one and replace it.

But we tried.

We taste tested this one with grass fed tallow.

Yeah, and it did.

Not it did not do better than the cacao butter base because it's a white chocolate.

You almost need that cacao butter in there.

It plays into the chocolate flavor a.

100%.

And the peppermint extract and.

I mean, the tallow version was good, but we just launched tallow nootropic icing that was better with tallow than with cacao.

This one we tried with both and it's definitely better with cacao because like you said, we're trying to target a white chocolate vibe and chocolate is actually made from cacao.

So like if you use the base ingredient of cacao, it just tastes better and it it just is, is good.

Like this is literally my favorite flavor.

We.

Even did a blind taste test at a morning meeting.

Had everybody try a piece of the tallow and a piece of the cacao butter versions.

All the other variables were the same.

Everybody wanted the cacao butter.

Yeah, and The thing is, like this brick, I like them all.

And each one of them I'll have like this, I'll be super hot for like let's, I'm just down in primal fledge all this week, which people have been asking about forever.

We're bringing that back.

Don't worry.

Keep your shirt on.

It is coming back.

It is coming.

Back very, very soon, but.

Just that's not soon enough to hold your breath.

Don't hold your breath.

Yeah, don't hold your breath soon.

It just takes a long time for the ingredients to get in.

But we are like, I like them all.

Like they'll be like when when we first launched buttermap pecan.

I'm on a freaking buttermap pecan kick.

The thing about the bricks, like what I think about when I'm like, what is my favorite flavour?

It's like, which flavours can I eat every single day without getting bored of or just like, getting burnt out on?

Phoebe Hallelujah is in that list.

Oh yeah.

Bells Brownie I could pretty much eat every single day.

And white chocolate pepper.

Like, those three are the three that I can literally eat.

Like, if I only had one of those, I'd be happy eating that one flavor in perpetuity.

Yeah.

That was a good.

One so white chocolate pepper is my jam.

So I'm secretly hoping the guys mess up a couple so I can eat them.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, what else we got cooking.

I had a DEXA last week.

You didn't.

I did, yeah.

Let me just take a peek at that.

I had some blood work done.

You talk about your blood work, we do that.

Your testosterone is crazy man.

Any time I post it online, people just they just hit me up.

You're an easy target for the.

I have a super.

Not natty comments.

Where's my DEXA?

Oh yeah, I had a Dexa done just because Jerry at the Dexafit here in Farmington launched a pretty sweet Black Friday, Cyber Monday sale where he, he could buy a package of four at a super discounted price.

So I got four of them and I just had some blood work done.

So I figured I'd just kind of hit them all at the same time of the year.

Blood work and body composition.

My DEXA came back at, I got an A+ score overall body comp is top notch.

That's what it tells me.

I'm right around 1313.1% body fat.

And what am I weighing?

Do you feel that's pretty accurate?

Yeah, that's kind of where I've been floating at home on my N body.

My N body has me between 10:00 and 12:00 typically.

And I think the Dexa's obviously more accurate, but the DEXA usually reads 1 to 1 1/2 to 2% higher than what my N body did.

That's anyways the trend it has been in the past is I can expect 1 or 2% difference, but I don't remember my whole I'm right around 213, two 14215 kind of that's where my weight has been fluctuating.

So and we've had you at around 2627 hundred calories.

Yeah, there's been some days where I've eaten a little bit extra, so.

So your average is probably like 28 three thousand.

Yeah.

I mean, it's definitely under 3000, but yeah.

So if I can hold here for a while and keep getting stronger, I mean, all the lifts going up, you know, things are just going the right direction.

I need to do a DEXA.

I need to get blood work done.

I'm going to do that before the beginning of the year, probably.

Actually, what I'm probably going to do is get blood work 'cause I'm going to go.

I'm going to fly out to Las Vegas, NV and do Dave Feldman's podcast.

I got to figure out what day I'm going to do that, but I'm probably going to schedule my blood work to land right before I do that so that I can have all of that data for that podcast.

Oh yeah, 'cause that would be interesting.

I might get it twice, once now, once right before then, but that's happened soon enough.

I might just wait and do it then.

But I need to get a DEXA.

While I was there the other day with you, I did that heat mapping.

Oh yeah.

Shape scale scan thing.

The.

3D rendering.

Yeah, and those are cool because it it does a 3D like it has a camera that rotates around you and then it generates your circumference measurements and then it heat maps change from the prior scan.

So I looked at my prior scan and it showed, it showed my chest had gotten bigger.

And I've really been doubling down on chest trainings that made sense.

It showed my back had gotten a little bit bigger and it showed my penis had gotten bigger.

So I'm like, I don't know why this is not just a joke.

It showed that.

So I don't know, I mean.

Interesting.

Maybe it was just the way that you tucked.

Maybe, I don't know.

Are you?

Maybe you tucked the last?

Those were the three spots that showed red in the 3D heat mapping rendering, so I don't know what that means.

Maybe I was thinking about crystal or something when I get the skin, I don't know.

I.

Don't know.

Weird.

Weird, but it is cool from like a like a tracking standpoint.

If you have those.

I wrote about this in my newsletter, But if you have access to one of those and you get a scan done, I don't know, every two weeks or a month or so, you can see, you know, heat map and circumference changes over time via 3D analysis rendering, which is pretty cool, man.

It is cool.

I don't know what that costs.

I think he said it was like 9 grand or something like that.

I'm sure he had a lot of money and he I think he said he might be the only facility that has one of those that version and a DEXA in the same.

Facility.

Might be the whole entire country or world.

So he's got like the high end shape scale which you're just talking about.

He's got the VO2 Max, he's got the RMR testing, he's got the DEXA, he's got all the goodies.

And he just got a cycling component for the VO2 Max.

And so it's not just tripman social cycling.

Now he's got all the bells and whistles.

I mean, it's, it's pretty cool because like we've talked about before, we didn't have any provider around here at all that offered a DEXA.

And now we finally do.

And he offers way more than just a DEXA.

Like we waited for forever to get that functionality, but now we got it.

We got it plus a whole lot of other bells and whistles.

So.

And he usually has like sales and promos going or you can get a package deal and add some of the other tools on there.

Pretty cool.

Like it's only 5 minutes, 10 minutes from us so.

All plus he's probably going to sponsor the competition again next year I think.

We could ask him, yeah.

Definitely, yeah, we have a date we can.

We'd love to have him there again if some of the other sponsors would probably reach out to.

I wonder if he could bring his shape scale to the venue.

That would that would be cool.

I don't know what I mean.

And once that thing is set in place and calibrated, you probably don't want to jockey it around too much.

Yeah, good point, Good point.

Alright, what else we got on the agenda?

Anything else we want to cover on today's recording?

We had a whole bunch of calls we're we're rolling out that new software that we've kind of alluded to that's officially.

Next week right after the launch, so fingers crossed everything goes smooth.

We're going to try and soft launch it this week so that we know that it works well before the launch.

Yeah.

So that's the plan.

But we've got to count everything.

We've got to count every single brick in inventory, which is a lot, including dates, production lot numbers, all the ingredients that we have in cold storage, dry storage, all the partial containers of ingredients that probably are no longer in their original packaging.

But we'll have to take those out and literally weigh them down to the gram because when we roll everything into where for the new software, it's going to automatically start using that inventory in a much deeper level than our current setup.

So like if we go into it without nitty gritty accuracy, it's going to it's going to skew some things because it's going to say, OK, you ran out of this lot number of cacao butter.

So it'll automatically start pulling from the next lot number of cacao butter.

But if it isn't accurate to the gram.

Then it's going to.

Yeah, it'll be a pain in the butt.

Getting started will be a pain in the butt, but we we need to let it be a pain in the butt because if the accuracy isn't there from the start, then everything forward is going to be.

Yeah.

It's like, I think once we roll it out though, it's going to be way more streamlined and efficient, obviously way more accurate.

Like what we're doing now is very accurate.

There's a lot of manual data entry.

This will be just as accurate, but much more automated.

Yes, once it's all live.

So that'll be a massive time saver.

And we need time savers because as we said in the very beginning, we're spread pretty thin, so anything we can do 2 times save is worthwhile.

Yeah, we want to automate it.

Automate.

It also we just rolled out, so after we get done recording this, I'm about to sit down with Chip and we're going to film a bunch of those AMA response videos.

So if anybody is on my Instagram, I pinned it as one of the top three pinned posts in there.

But I'm going to be fielding questions via Instagram.

So basically just go to my link in bio, submit a question of whatever topic you want, and then I'm just going to film a bunch of those and then just drip those out on the Instagram reels.

So I'm excited about that.

That would be good.

That is a good thing.

I'm going to go in there and submit my questions.

Yeah, you got a question for me.

What you got?

Oh, you have to wait and see.

Well, give me a laugh.

It'll come through.

No, I don't really have.

Give me sync something.

A hard time.

Yeah.

I'm going to actually request that you'd never sing.

Can I put in?

Can I put in requests for songs that can be retired from Robert's playlist?

Oh, that's a good one.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a good one.

Robert's got a few favorite songs that we hear.

Which one?

Which one?

I mean the ones that I'm posing to.

No, what was that other one that you've been really the?

One that I'm thinking about posing to.

Yeah.

I can't unveil that.

Then people will know.

Well, you don't have to necessarily name it, but that's the one I'm referring to.

Well, how do I practice my posing?

How do I practice my posing?

If you can, I don't care.

It's going to be good, man.

It's going to be good.

But you and Alan both, you know, I'll play that song and you'll just.

Get mad at me.

That's because we don't have ceilings above us, so we hear it.

I need a ceiling for my office.

Need a ceiling for your office?

Well, maybe, if maybe.

For Christmas.

Maybe for Christmas.

Well, open up a ceiling for your office.

Yeah, that'd be good.

All right.

We got a lot of stuff to knockout.

We got some e-mail proofs to do, and we'll do that next.

I have to try and get the rig started.

All that fun stuff.

Sweet.

So until next time, y'all?

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