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00:00:14.460Hello, welcome to another episode of Pristitutionalist Podcast.
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00:00:17.020I am your host, Joseph M.
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00:00:24.699It's not it's wonderful down an O.
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00:00:27.900Thank you for tuning in.
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00:00:32.299As Graham Norton used to say on his show.
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00:00:49.180For those looking on the five behind the scenes video channels, sneak peek videos, you will see.
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00:01:02.700Oh, first let me say, this is a cheat intro again, kind of like I do on Saturdays if I'm presenting a video exclusive from prior the same cheat.
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00:01:26.459You'll see the same or here on the 40-ish audio only platforms, this same mini intro, but I am wearing the Book of Kennedy Project Carpe DM bookshirt because welcome to Books Slash Authors Week.
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00:01:31.340Just one week for April of 2026.
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00:01:41.980Prior I had Books slash authors weeks this time to get caught up on some back interviews of authors.
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00:01:53.420I'm doing a singular book slash books slash authors week for April 2026, Monday through Friday.
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00:02:05.739Also, I want to say at the end of each episode, I will tack on one of my newer, more recent Suno created songs.
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00:02:09.340If you remember, uh my dad, Ted Lunner Jr.
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00:02:15.340in Poker Kings, TinyURL.com, The Poker Kings to see that tribute page, Sam.
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00:02:16.860He had a record deal.
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00:02:19.660I used to write and record music the old way.
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00:02:36.380You know, get out a piece of sheet music and write out the actual song on the sheet music, the chords, the notes, the lyrics, the buttons all my equipment's been long sold off.
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00:02:48.060But thanks to Suno AI music system, I'm back to writing lyrics and releasing music again.
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00:03:08.700So each day, Monday through Friday of Bookslash Authors Week 2026 April, I will check on a Suno Aided Created new song from Joseph M.
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00:03:11.820Leonard, J Leonard Detroit on Suno.
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00:03:13.820So thank you to them.
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00:03:16.460And I've already delayed things.
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00:03:19.580So without further ado, let's get to an author.
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00:03:22.700Joining me today is Timothy Ward.
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00:03:30.700Before we get into the who he is, why he's here, he's got a story to tell about Xfinity.
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00:03:33.820Go ahead and say what you were saying in the green room.
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00:03:35.820Oh, Joseph, I love you already.
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00:03:40.219Thank you because Xfinity is driving me crazy.
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00:03:43.420Yeah, they up and down.
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00:03:47.100For the second day, like I was on three shows yesterday.
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00:03:51.740Today I'm booked for three, and unbeknownst, they don't announce it.
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00:03:55.340They're in my quote unquote area laying with the line.
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00:03:58.140So I said, you know, you gotta be kidding me.
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00:04:03.900So the shut, you know, with the internet's going in and out and all of this crazy stuff.
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00:04:07.900So to to to come here for for you, Joseph.
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00:04:20.860I I just drove like a madman over to a business friend of mine's office to use, and I barely made it here for our one o'clock uh tea time here at all, right?
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00:04:28.060Yeah, because two days ago we were supposed to record and there was a mix-up of time then.
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00:04:31.259Yep, yep.
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00:04:35.500He's gonna think I'm uh a nut job if I miss this one.
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00:04:42.300So yeah, you were saying, uh, you gotta tune into the Wi-Fi there.
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00:04:44.139And oh, how can you set up?
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00:04:45.259Where can you set up?
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00:04:52.060Yeah, I feel like I just ran a marathon in about 32 minutes.
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00:05:00.860I got the Wi-Fi wrong, and I'm like, he gave me the wrong wife because of the new new new place I just set up here so I I can get on with you.
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00:05:03.740And um, I must have typed that thing in six times.
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00:05:05.660I'm like, oh no, oh no.
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00:05:08.540He gave me the anyway.
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00:05:09.740God bless us.
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00:05:10.460Here we are.
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00:05:14.780Yeah, thank somebody doesn't want us to record.
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00:05:17.500Hey, that's one way of looking at it.
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00:05:25.740At any rate, so Times the Ward, the goat within book.
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00:05:31.340As long as it isn't the sheep within, we've got enough sheep all on the planet.
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00:05:32.780Oh, yeah, we do.
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00:05:37.819So if for nothing else I wanted you on to, I could make that lame pun.
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00:05:41.340No, no, bye-bye, everybody.
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00:05:42.620No, you know what?
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00:05:46.540You just made me think maybe I should have called the book The Lion Within.
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00:05:49.900Exactly.
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00:05:51.500The next edition, right?
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00:05:59.259Well, there's there's short stories, there's novella, there's novelette, then there's novel.
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00:06:13.900I invented the novel X, EXT for extended because if there's a novella and a novelette is shorter than the average novel, a novel X would be like the director's cut.
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00:06:24.300You could do The Lion Within as an extended version, expanded version, or novel X, EXP for expanded.
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00:06:29.259You could do an expanded version of the Goat Within, call it the Lion Within.
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00:06:30.060Oh, you know what?
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00:06:31.259You get making it.
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00:06:34.220Yeah, add some extra chapters to that.
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00:06:53.100So indeed, at any rate, but before we get into the goat within, uh, about lifespan longevity and fitness, let's do the proverbial Christian show, pun intended proverbs, proverbial first question.
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00:07:03.340Significant places you've been in between, how much time you spent in prison for what?
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00:07:05.259All that nitty-gritty.
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00:07:11.420For the record, yeah, for no, for the record, he's laughing.
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00:07:12.620He knows it's a joke.
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00:07:13.579It's a joke.
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00:07:15.100I'm just joking.
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00:07:18.540But yeah, where are you born and raised and all that stuff?
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00:07:26.460So uh I'm I'm uh coming to you right now from a beautiful uh coastline up in New Hampshire, where I was born and raised.
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00:07:36.060Rye, New Hampshire, Newcastle, New Hampshire, little seaside town north of Boston, about maybe maybe an hour north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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00:07:37.500Everybody knows that, right?
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00:07:42.860Um, and I'm south of Portland, Maine, which would be the next kind of big city.
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00:07:45.660Portland, Maine is about 50 minutes north of me.
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00:07:47.180So I'm right in the middle.
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00:07:50.780Absolute live free or die state of New Hampshire.
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00:07:52.220Love New Hampshire.
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00:07:58.139It's it's uh it's where I'm raised, it's where I know lots and lots of people, in particular, the coastline here.
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00:08:16.460When people come here from all over the world now, you know, New York, uh, Europe, Canada, Boston, they come here thinking it's going to be a little, you know, cow, you know, uh fields and cows and you know, pigs, and you know, where where are all the shotguns and the pitchforks?
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00:08:24.540And they come here and they're like, wow, this place is right on the ocean, 16 miles of coastline, absolutely gorgeous.
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00:08:30.139And this area has absolutely exploded in growth, unfortunately.
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00:08:46.939It's okay for a little growth, I get it, but it is really the epicenter in uh the Northeast, or one of the epicenters where prices of real estate and houses and buildings going up, it's it's at such a fever pitch, you wonder how long can this go on for?
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00:08:51.179My family, you know, I've got my grandfather, great-grandfather that lived here.
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00:08:52.459They were lobstermen.
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00:08:55.339Little boats, that's how they made their, you know, made their living.
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00:09:01.419That ran up all the way to my older brother, was a lifelong lobsterman, so he carried that tradition on.
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00:09:03.259I'm probably the one that broke it.
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00:09:06.059Uh I eat lobster.
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00:09:09.259I I tell people I'm so sick of lobster, I had it my whole life, right?
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00:09:14.219But people have people are fascinated with lobster, New England lobster, all that sort of stuff.
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00:09:23.259We grew up in that town where it was little, small Newcastle, New Hampshire, small little town, blue collar, you know, a couple fishing piers, and you know, tiny.
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00:09:27.019It's a little island in between Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Rye, New Hampshire.
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00:09:35.099If anybody cares to look it up quick on Google or whatever, you'll see this little island, about 900 people live on it, connected by you know two little bridges.
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00:09:40.459My mom's an artist, very well known around here, painting different landscapes and all that sort of stuff.
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00:09:43.659I guess I had that small town experience growing up.
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00:09:50.379Once it was uh discovered, the the houses here, you know, beautiful house on the on the ocean when I was young.
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00:09:52.459I just turned 61 last week.
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00:09:56.059I remember as a little kid, you know, delivering the newspaper, all that stuff.
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00:10:00.219These house you could buy a house for 80 grand on the ocean.
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00:10:04.539Now those same houses are going for six, seven million and more.
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00:10:06.620So you you you sort of itch your head.
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00:10:07.819Is that what what is that?
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00:11:16.769Is that really how much the dollar has devalued over, you know, no, it has devalued a ton, but I don't think that much.
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00:11:19.649We're in for another bubble burst again.
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00:11:20.449I agree.
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00:11:23.490Housing is so overvalued again.
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00:11:35.169I fear another 2008 because people will the it when they correct, people will be underwater in their mortgage in like 2008, they'll walk away.
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00:11:38.610Banks will be holding a bunch of foreclosed properties.
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00:11:39.089Yep.
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00:11:46.209So hopefully some things can be done in the interim so that it eases down, doesn't collapse.
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00:11:50.049But I want to say the dog is steal, trying to steal the show.
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00:11:51.250We can see him in the mirror.
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00:11:53.649Oh, that's my that's my buddy.
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00:11:55.169Uh uh, that's his dog.
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00:11:56.689I'm using his place right now.
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00:12:04.049So yeah, yeah, we can see him in the mirror on the door there trying to look at trying to steal the shot there.
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00:12:06.689Theo's protecting me.
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00:12:10.769He's got your six, apparently.
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00:12:14.449All right, so give Theo a hug for us when we're done.
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00:12:15.089You bet.
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00:12:15.809You bet.
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00:12:18.289Tell us about the goat within.
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00:12:20.289What was the genes?
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00:12:22.769Another Christian pun, right?
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00:12:25.009The genesis of the book.
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00:12:26.370Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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00:12:28.209Uh, well, it's funny.
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00:12:32.929Um, you know, for years, so I've been involved in sort of a long story.
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00:12:43.569Let me give you the the just the quick background of how I ended up being an author of what now is a best-selling book now, unbeknownst to me at the time of writing it.
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00:12:46.049It's the first book I ever wrote, but let me let me tell you how I got there.
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00:12:50.529When I was young, sounds like a song when I was young, pretty tough upbringing.
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00:12:55.250Pretty heavily abused, physically, beat up in the hospital from my dad.
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00:13:01.889Um, both my older brother and me were, and my mom, unfortunately, really had some tough years.
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00:13:06.850Uh in today's world, he'd he'd be he'd be straight, straight car ride to prison, right?
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00:13:14.850But back in, you know, in the in the 70s, um, early 70s, you know, it was a different, you know, different era, all that sort of stuff.
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00:13:26.289And uh so between the beatings, uh, between the black eyes and the you know, busted lips and all that stuff, um uh I was naturally good at athletics at a young age.
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00:13:29.009And that became my safe place.
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00:13:30.850That became my happy place.
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00:13:37.889Uh I was obviously as a young kid, uh six, seven, eight years old, you know, a world of hurt.
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00:13:38.929I didn't know what to think of it.
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00:13:42.370I just know there were a lot of tears, a lot of crying, a lot of hurt.
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00:13:52.449Um, so uh once I picked up a basketball or a baseball, man, I was good at it, and it felt like wow, people are actually cheering for me.
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00:13:59.409You know, the the my my buddies uh parents are like, wow, you scored 40 points and you this and you so it felt great.
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00:14:04.449And of course Yeah, positive attention that you weren't used to.
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00:14:12.449Well, wasn't used to because I was I lived in fear, I lived in tears, you know, really worried to even say something wrong, right?
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00:14:18.049So so that became something that all I wanted to do was play sports, obviously.
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00:14:24.929And so it became a year-round thing for me, and I was good at the football, basketball, baseball, soccer, you name it.
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00:14:28.289And so I was, you know, 364 days a year.
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00:14:29.569That's all I wanted to do.
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00:14:36.689And that progressed into you know, uh grade school and then junior high and then into the to the high school years.
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00:14:45.969But um uh I got scouted by um uh a couple minor league uh baseball teams, the Pawsocks and all that sort of stuff.
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00:15:04.769And it was right around when I was 17 years old that um um I had an okay game, and the you know, the scouts were at this game, and uh the beatings were still not as as as as uh uh frequent, but the mental stuff started to happen.
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00:15:10.370Screaming, telling me I was a loser, telling me it just just awful stuff, right?
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00:15:28.289And uh so one night uh coming home, you know, 11 o'clock at night, you know, uh I I just got the the absolute tongue-washing because the Red Sox uh, you know, uh minor league team, you know, they they cross you off the list because you didn't have a good game and you're awful, and all that stuff.
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00:15:29.409Well, I lost it.
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00:15:32.929I lost it in the car ride home from dad.
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00:15:40.610And uh uh did some pretty unsavory things physically and um uh uh just exploded as a young man.
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00:15:41.649I couldn't take it anymore.
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00:15:50.850You know, watching my mom get beat up, all the bad stuff we've heard stories, and you know, I lived it, and I'm sure there's a lot of people that have had it worse than me in those situations, right?
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00:15:54.449So uh that was the last time the guy ever laid hands on me.
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00:16:01.409Um uh and I saw fear in his eyes because some of the things I told him I was gonna do to him if he ever touches me or my mother again.
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00:16:05.009Well, that's usually what a bully needs, right?
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00:16:08.689A bully remains a bully till he stood up to.
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00:16:23.889And because a lot we don't know of at the time, but as we grow older, we I've had bullseye the clown on he became a clown out of bullying, and hence his name, bullseye.
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00:16:24.769Bullseye, yeah.
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00:16:26.689Yeah, yeah, you know, the bully.
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00:16:38.049It's the in and I go into it to a degree in my the Book of Kennedy project Carpe Diem, Natasha who bullied Kennedy.
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00:16:49.089And right, it's an insecurity in the person that causes them to lash out at others to deal with their low self-esteem.
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00:16:49.969Right.
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00:16:50.850Right.
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00:16:55.009But you don't know that in that time and place.
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00:17:01.089Yeah, at seven, eight, nine years old, you you can't think of you, you you don't have the smarts to think about that stuff.
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00:17:02.769You can't cope with it, right?
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00:17:09.089So by the time I was, you know, in my middle teens, I started, you know, okay, this is this isn't gonna happen anymore.
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00:17:13.889Uh so um um, you know, to move on uh, you know, from that situation.
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00:17:29.969So um um naturally in athletics, when you get to that age of your, you know, 14, 15, 16, certainly 17, you know, your performance um uh becomes more important to keep climbing the ladder in the athletic pyramid.
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00:17:36.449So that meant training, working out, hitting the gym, all these different you know, things that we would do.
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00:17:44.449So obviously I went in like 99.9% of uh kids that age, even today, they go do it incorrectly.
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00:17:53.250So I started to work out, and really one of my motivations was I wanted to I wanted to physically dominate my father.
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00:17:57.969And and and so it was coupled with wanting to be a better athlete, all that sort of stuff.
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00:18:48.480So that went on, and uh I got scholarships into you know division three and division two colleges for basketball, right?
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00:19:02.960And I kept my training going uh in the gym fitness-wise, but it wasn't until I was in my probably my late 20s that I yeah, oh I I I I gotta can't pass, but Strike Clee tells us white men can't jump, right?
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00:19:06.720I can had to throw that in.
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00:19:08.960Sorry, sorry, go on.
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00:19:15.039He's right to a point, but you know, some of them can really jump, and I was one of them that could jump.
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00:19:17.680That's funny.
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00:19:32.960Um, so uh, you know, I was very serious about my health and and fitness, and you know, it felt good to be strong and all the things that I guess a young lot of young guys, you know, even in their 20s that you know, 30s, we want that, right?
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00:19:37.279So um I was just a little bit hyper about it because it felt great.
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00:19:49.359But I started to plateau, I couldn't really get anywhere with my training, and then I met an exercise scientist and told me I was doing everything incorrect.
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00:19:51.519And I was like, what are you talking about, Lam?
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00:19:53.200It's just going into the gym, it's just work.
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00:20:10.559He sat me down, and in about two hours, I was speechless at the depth of science involved with fitness and and and uh working out and and all the things that society thinks fitness is and working out is.
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00:20:12.720I I gotta tell you something, Joseph.
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00:20:17.599It is the the most uh misunderstood thing under the sun.
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00:20:19.359It really, really is.
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00:20:24.879And so my trek went into exercise sciences, exercise kinesiology, some education.
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00:20:41.279Uh I ended up working with some uh PhD guys, um uh really, really bright um um uh scientists, researchers, and I completely immersed myself into the science of fitness.
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00:20:53.599Uh fitness doesn't mean just lifting weights, it really means uh nutritional sciences, uh cardiovascular sciences, and what I ended up really learning is rest and recovery.
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00:20:56.319Those are big time components, right?
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00:20:59.440So, so a lot of people wanted to work with me.
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00:21:01.759You know, I've been doing this for 30 years, right?
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00:21:10.000Uh so uh I started to work with people and and got pretty popular in terms of uh training people and working with people.
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00:21:26.879Uh so what happened is I really started to understand you know what a brand really was and how you can connect with people to really really um address real real health issues people are having.
00:21:27.119 -->
00:21:30.319And this is one of the uh reasons why I wrote the book.
00:21:30.720 -->
00:21:38.960So uh Yeah, in your in your bio though, yeah, it says like translating all this into words was challenging.
00:21:39.680 -->
00:21:59.119And it it's yeah, how do you turn all that, especially physical things, uh and working out, and are are there indeed illustrations and images in the book to help the words depict what needs to be done?
00:21:59.359 -->
00:22:02.319Yeah, that's a that's an absolute fantastic question.
00:22:02.559 -->
00:22:10.960And the answer is yes, there is, but it's even better because I I do have a few QR codes in the book, which which my publisher loved.
00:22:11.039 -->
00:22:13.039He said, Man, that is such a great idea.
00:22:13.279 -->
00:22:24.319So, you know, we go into it a little bit, but the the honest answer is it's such a massive body of work, you couldn't possibly write a book to to cover all that stuff, right?
00:22:24.399 -->
00:22:32.079Yeah, so so the or it would be way too long, it'd be war in peace, it would cost too much, nobody could afford to buy it.
00:22:32.319 -->
00:22:36.240So you do like I do, you include bonus material in the book.
00:22:36.319 -->
00:22:40.720You said QR codes that'll take you to additional things online.
00:22:41.119 -->
00:22:43.119I do that with all my books too.
00:22:43.200 -->
00:22:44.319I provide links.
00:22:44.399 -->
00:22:51.200I didn't think I'm a former IT guy and I'm not right with QR codes in my books.
00:22:51.440 -->
00:22:55.920It's like, duh, yeah, I should I should be doing that, obviously.
00:22:56.079 -->
00:22:59.440And now going forward, thanks to you, I will.
00:23:02.240 -->
00:23:11.359It was pretty cool because my my pub publisher who's got really, really deep experience in the industry, he was like, wow, that really makes the book interactive.
00:23:11.599 -->
00:23:30.000And I said it's exactly because my mission, my mission is really, really to get society to understand this stuff at a at a simpler level, yet executable, uh, something that they can really start to understand what it means.
00:23:30.319 -->
00:23:34.399So um I really thought a lot about the name, the message.
00:23:34.639 -->
00:23:35.519There's a lot to it.
00:23:35.680 -->
00:23:36.799It really challenged me.
00:23:36.960 -->
00:23:41.599It's just what I'm asking people to do in fitness and their health, right?
00:23:41.920 -->
00:23:45.279Goat is obvious, people associate that with sports.
00:23:45.440 -->
00:23:50.799And in fact, uh uh I don't know when this will air, but full disclosure, we're recording.
00:23:51.440 -->
00:23:53.519In December of 2025.
00:23:53.839 -->
00:23:56.639Some of this will probably air in 2026.
00:23:56.960 -->
00:24:02.000I think out now or out soon, there's a movie called Goat or something like that.
00:24:02.960 -->
00:24:09.839It's an animated thing about a goat that's too small but wants to play basketball or whatever.
00:24:10.159 -->
00:24:18.799But back to the QR thing, I've at least finally got common enough to put QA codes on my business card.
00:24:19.440 -->
00:24:21.599But I don't have them in my books yet.
00:24:21.759 -->
00:24:27.839So but yeah, there's an animated movie coming out with a story.
00:24:27.920 -->
00:24:28.159Yeah.
00:24:28.319 -->
00:24:32.559So we all associate GOAT, of course, greatest of all three.
00:24:32.960 -->
00:24:33.920Greatest of all time, right?
00:24:34.319 -->
00:24:41.200Acronym there with sports-related things and hence my sheep joke at the beginning.
00:24:41.279 -->
00:24:41.920Yeah.
00:24:43.440 -->
00:24:45.599So so here's some here's some stuff.
00:24:45.680 -->
00:24:54.960So so my website also, and we'll we'll get to that address here in a little bit, uh also has a lot of information on the website.
00:24:55.039 -->
00:24:57.599So that obviously those links are in the book and all that.
00:24:57.759 -->
00:24:59.920So people can kind of go on a little bit of a journey.
00:25:00.000 -->
00:25:01.680They can take it as far as they want.
00:25:01.839 -->
00:25:04.399Um, but here's the bottom line.
00:25:04.559 -->
00:25:13.680Uh, you know, society, especially the US, um, is really there is an absolute tsunami that's growing bigger and bigger every year.
00:25:13.839 -->
00:25:22.319People are really, really sick and nosediving into decay, especially people that are 45, 55, 65, 70.
00:25:22.480 -->
00:25:29.200That's the age group where where people really start to lose their physicality.
00:25:29.440 -->
00:25:30.720And there's a reason for that.
00:25:30.879 -->
00:25:32.559And the book really covers about it.
00:25:32.639 -->
00:25:37.839The book isn't all about working out, a third of it is about uh the toxic world we live in.
00:25:38.000 -->
00:25:40.159And so I go into that for people.
00:25:40.480 -->
00:25:43.039Um you that's the first thing I teach them.
00:25:43.200 -->
00:25:56.480Listen, you have to understand that the the mass-produced food industry is loaded with toxins, toxins that literally take years to tear your body apart.
00:25:56.720 -->
00:25:59.200It starts showing up in your 40s and 50s.
00:25:59.440 -->
00:26:02.480We're resilient when we're you know 15, 20, 30 years old.
00:26:02.639 -->
00:26:02.799Yeah.
00:26:03.200 -->
00:26:13.599So this book and my whole brand, Life Strong, is geared to take 45 to 75-year-old men and women, and I build ecosystems for them.
00:26:14.000 -->
00:26:21.680So, and I mean, like, you want to you want to turn the ship around and and add 10 years, 15 years to your life the right way.
00:26:21.920 -->
00:26:24.960This is what we do for people, and we are busy.
00:26:25.200 -->
00:26:34.319And yeah, I'm a former IT guy, the old saying, garbage in, garbage out, and this goes garbage in, create a garbage body.
00:26:34.399 -->
00:26:34.799Yes.
00:26:35.039 -->
00:26:35.680There you go.
00:26:35.759 -->
00:26:38.319So, so this is a typical visit to the doctor.
00:26:38.399 -->
00:26:43.519I train a lot of doctors, and it's not just in the US anymore, it's in Italy, Singapore.
00:26:44.000 -->
00:26:47.279So I do a lot of online work where I customize stuff for people.
00:26:47.519 -->
00:26:57.920I literally videotape custom workouts for them, narrate them, so they get this this this silver platter of stuff customized to them.
00:26:58.159 -->
00:27:03.279And a lot of people that are executives and really, you know, really want they want answers.
00:27:03.440 -->
00:27:09.839And I give it to them and we we really drill down and in and deliver them an incredible, incredible ecosystem.
00:27:09.920 -->
00:27:10.319All right.
00:27:10.639 -->
00:27:12.960So here's you, you go to the doctor, right?
00:27:13.119 -->
00:27:14.799This is tip, this is so typical.
00:27:15.599 -->
00:27:19.920And you look at the you know, three or four big markers that they always talk about, right?
00:27:20.240 -->
00:27:22.639Diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure.
00:27:22.720 -->
00:27:24.559You do all your checkups and all that stuff, right?
00:27:24.799 -->
00:27:27.440And let's look at the stats on some of those things, right?
00:27:27.839 -->
00:27:36.960So we know that high blood pressure adds about 20, maybe 25% increase to uh early early death, your your lifespan, right?
00:27:37.440 -->
00:27:41.279Uh we have type 2 diabetes, which is all caused by food.
00:27:41.440 -->
00:27:43.759All this stuff is all caused by toxic food, by the way.
00:27:44.000 -->
00:27:44.240Right?
00:27:44.399 -->
00:27:51.599Uh type 2 type two type 2 diabetes is around 30% increase in early early death, right?
00:27:51.839 -->
00:27:53.200Dying young, right?
00:27:53.519 -->
00:27:57.359You go to high blood pressure, it's about 30, maybe 34%.
00:27:58.240 -->
00:28:07.839And so you tech check all your vitals and all that sort of stuff, and you know, uh, they'll either put you on pharmaceuticals, which please avoid them, everybody that's listening to me.
00:28:08.079 -->
00:28:10.960It is a slippery slope, and it's not the answer.
00:28:11.039 -->
00:28:11.279Okay.
00:28:11.680 -->
00:28:21.119So smoking, if you're a smoker, you and this is all published in the you know, New England Journal of Medicine, Jama, all these publications, all the all these studies I'm talking about.
00:28:21.519 -->
00:28:25.839Smoking, you have a 50% increase in your mortality.
00:28:26.000 -->
00:28:26.240Okay?
00:28:26.799 -->
00:28:30.07950% increase in higher risk of early death.
00:28:30.159 -->
00:28:33.440All right, those are staggering, those are big numbers, so you have to manage them.
00:28:34.240 -->
00:28:36.319But here's what they don't tell you, Joseph.
00:28:36.559 -->
00:28:39.839Here's what they don't, and this is all published, these are all published studies.
00:28:40.079 -->
00:28:53.759If your muscle and strength is in the bottom 20 to 25% of your age group, you have a 250% rate of early death.
00:28:54.799 -->
00:29:08.079If your heart and lungs are in the bottom 20% of your age group, you have a 400% increase of early death.
00:29:08.480 -->
00:29:11.680Think of those numbers compared to what everyone's scared about.
00:29:12.079 -->
00:29:28.000This is why longevity and wellness are becoming a very, very strong thing right now, because people are starting to realize, listen, how how did how quick did these 50 or 60 or 70 years go by in a blink of an eye?
00:29:28.319 -->
00:29:35.039So if somebody says, listen, you could add 10 years to your life, and there's really a formula to do that, right?
00:29:35.440 -->
00:29:36.960Um, they listen.
00:29:37.200 -->
00:29:46.559And once they start to understand there's a system in place that you can literally start to turn the ship around and start to add years to your life.
00:29:46.720 -->
00:29:48.480And that's what we do at Life Strong.
00:29:48.559 -->
00:29:50.399And that's why I wrote the book, The Goat Within.
00:29:50.480 -->
00:29:51.839It's all about this stuff.
00:29:52.079 -->
00:29:55.599And it's not a ghostwriter that wrote the book.
00:29:55.839 -->
00:29:59.519I'm the guy on the floor that has worked with well over a thousand people.
00:29:59.839 -->
00:30:09.599My sample size is so big in terms of how many men and women I've worked with and taught them a system that I've trademarked called the fitness quadrant.
00:30:09.920 -->
00:30:23.359And it's four phases of fitness and how it applies to you if you want a strategy on really how to press back against longevity, you know, uh uh early death, right?
00:30:23.680 -->
00:30:27.759You have to have a blueprint to do it.
00:30:27.920 -->
00:30:34.319You just can't go to Planet Fitness for ten dollars a month, get on a treadmill a couple times a week, maybe, or at one point.
00:30:34.639 -->
00:30:35.759Not that that hurts.
00:30:36.399 -->
00:30:37.519No, it's not that it's bad.
00:30:37.599 -->
00:30:38.319No, you're right.
00:30:38.559 -->
00:30:40.159It's I don't want to minimize it.
00:30:40.799 -->
00:30:44.480It's better than full disclosure.
00:30:44.720 -->
00:30:49.279Better than me with my health issues sitting here on the couch far too much.
00:30:49.680 -->
00:30:52.399I don't have a gym membership whatsoever.
00:30:52.960 -->
00:30:59.11990-pound weakling practically well, 167-pound weakling, unfortunately.
00:30:59.359 -->
00:31:09.279But yeah, uh I had taper heart surgery this year, so I'm finally at least now giving up and going for walks on occasion.
00:31:09.599 -->
00:31:19.680So I get, but before with the heart issue, I couldn't do that, I couldn't make it down the block without having to stop and sit down.
00:31:20.000 -->
00:31:20.319Right.
00:31:20.399 -->
00:31:29.039So which Greek brings up a great point that I talk about in the book, and I talk about when I I'm starting to do public speaking gigs now for small companies.
00:31:29.200 -->
00:31:32.960That's starting to you know really get to be an interesting thing.
00:31:33.119 -->
00:31:40.079Emails I get from companies saying, hey, we we we'd like you to speak because you start talking about productivity, less sick days, all that stuff, right?
00:31:40.159 -->
00:31:43.920Yeah, the sedimentary lifestyle of everybody, right?
00:31:44.000 -->
00:32:04.639It it it uh it's a a benefit to not only the employee, but the employer, because yeah, as you're suggesting, them being healthier and in better shape, less sick days, less you know, more energy while at work and all that.
00:32:05.119 -->
00:32:09.279It's the roots of your entire life, your health and vitality.
00:32:09.440 -->
00:32:10.159It really is.
00:32:10.319 -->
00:32:11.920Everything comes back to that.
00:32:12.159 -->
00:32:22.319And the stronger, more healthy, more vibrant you are, you're a better spouse, you're a better parent, you're a better worker, you're a better business owner, you're better in your society.
00:32:22.399 -->
00:32:24.319You you you add more to it.
00:32:24.639 -->
00:32:32.079And I talk about that in my speeches where you know, fitness gets gets, you know, channeled into this little workout thing.
00:32:32.240 -->
00:32:33.599It's much bigger than that.
00:32:33.759 -->
00:32:39.599When you take a bigger view of it, you're you're talking about tectonic plates moving in your life.
00:32:39.920 -->
00:32:47.920And the thing about it is there's an exact science on really how to do it properly, and there's an entry point for everybody.
00:32:48.159 -->
00:33:02.079People that have never worked out before or never really focused on it, I love those type of people because uh they're the ones that want to do it, but they're intimidated, they don't want to go into a gym, maybe they're overweight, they're a little embarrassed.
00:33:02.240 -->
00:33:09.279I love taking people like that because they're open and they know they have to make a move when they're 40, 50, 60 years old.
00:33:09.440 -->
00:33:11.039Those are the decades, man.
00:33:11.200 -->
00:33:20.720If you're not doing something, right around 72 years old is when it is really clear that's when people fall off a shelf.
00:33:21.039 -->
00:33:26.480So I'm trying to get people to avoid that and make the right decisions, the right choices.
00:33:26.799 -->
00:33:32.960You just can't eat right and expect to really add a lot of long longevity to your life.
00:33:33.039 -->
00:33:38.319You'll add a little bit, you can't just do resistance training, right?
00:33:38.559 -->
00:33:41.279Light workouts, you can't just do that.
00:33:41.519 -->
00:33:44.720You can't just do cardiovascular work.
00:33:45.039 -->
00:33:53.119This is a combination of four major phases of fitness, and each one of those components in my fitness quadrant, right?
00:33:53.359 -->
00:33:56.000They have a big drop-down list of science underneath them.
00:33:56.159 -->
00:33:57.440I do all that work.
00:33:57.759 -->
00:34:08.399People just look at that quadrant and I tell them this is this is an easy plan how you can how you can enter into this little ecosystem I built for you, and then guess what happens?
00:34:08.719 -->
00:34:15.759About eight to nine weeks in, they start to feel the effects like, wow, I'm sleeping better.
00:34:15.920 -->
00:34:18.559I've lost seven pounds, I feel stronger.
00:34:18.719 -->
00:34:20.480People are saying you look different.
00:34:20.719 -->
00:34:23.039You know, then 12 to 18 weeks hits.
00:34:23.279 -->
00:34:30.719Oh man, it that's when they hit a phase what I call in the book, and I call in in the real world with a lot of clients I work with.
00:34:30.879 -->
00:34:32.559That is called fitness momentum.
00:34:32.799 -->
00:34:42.879They've put those four pieces together the right way, the right diet, the right, you know, lifting some weights, the right cardio work, the right rest and recovery.
00:34:43.119 -->
00:34:47.039That's when the synergy starts to really pull.
00:34:47.279 -->
00:34:50.239And then we have other things that we can add to that.
00:34:50.480 -->
00:34:57.519Um, people are talking about, I don't know if you've heard or seen anything, Joseph, on peptides, but they are.
00:34:57.760 -->
00:34:59.440I'm certified level one.
00:34:59.519 -->
00:35:03.599I'm getting my second uh certification in peptide therapy.
00:35:03.840 -->
00:35:05.680We work with a peptide company.
00:35:05.920 -->
00:35:12.320I'm telling you, anybody listening to this, it is going to wipe out the supplement companies.
00:35:12.720 -->
00:35:20.400Supplements are, you know, they've been around forever and they they've really gone so far overboard with their promises and guarantees.
00:35:20.480 -->
00:35:22.720And it's a multi-billion dollar industry.
00:35:22.800 -->
00:35:27.280You're taking in a pill or a tablet or a drink, and a few of them are good.
00:35:27.519 -->
00:35:30.079Most of them, they really don't do much.
00:35:30.559 -->
00:35:31.519Snake oil.
00:35:31.680 -->
00:35:33.440Yeah, most of them are snake oil.
00:35:33.760 -->
00:35:34.880They really are, you know.
00:35:35.039 -->
00:35:41.920So so peptides, oh, they they are messengers, they're naturally occurring in your body.
00:35:42.159 -->
00:35:45.840We lose our ability to produce them as we get into our 40s and 50s.
00:35:46.079 -->
00:35:51.120I'm telling you, we're doing a whole series on peptides uh on our website now.
00:35:51.200 -->
00:35:53.280We're we're rebuilding that part of the website.
00:35:53.360 -->
00:35:59.520Um, so by you know, by January, by the time people hear this, I beg you to go on and listen and learn.
00:35:59.760 -->
00:36:01.440Education is number one you get.
00:36:01.680 -->
00:36:04.640You have to have knowledge, and this is what we do for people.
00:36:04.800 -->
00:36:06.880Uh, we do a lot of one-on-one work.
00:36:06.960 -->
00:36:08.960Uh, we do a lot of husbands and wives.
00:36:09.120 -->
00:36:11.120Um, we do a deep dive.
00:36:11.280 -->
00:36:13.600And I I tell you, I'm blessed.
00:36:13.760 -->
00:36:27.760Uh, I feel like uh God put me on the earth to do this, and it's a big turnaround for me getting beat up when I was five, six, seven years old to being 61 and now having a brand where I'm helping people, I'm not beating them up.
00:36:28.240 -->
00:36:28.800Right?
00:36:29.840 -->
00:36:32.000And it's full circle for me.
00:36:32.320 -->
00:36:41.520Yeah, I go in in the terrorist, uh the terror strikes, the book of Kennedy Project Carpenium talking about bullying.
00:36:41.760 -->
00:36:49.600You wouldn't, as bad as it is to look back on, you wouldn't be who you are and where you are today, though.
00:36:49.840 -->
00:36:52.320Without it, you would be a different person.
00:36:52.560 -->
00:37:02.240So I don't like to say there's a positive to it, but I think you understand what I without it, you would be a different person.
00:37:02.400 -->
00:37:10.080So indeed, what is that website for people to look for more info and to reach out to you?
00:37:11.040 -->
00:37:12.640You mentioned Life Strong.
00:37:12.960 -->
00:37:17.600So I if I were a betting man, I would bet that might be the name of the site.
00:37:17.840 -->
00:37:18.160It is.
00:37:18.240 -->
00:37:20.000There's a couple ways to get to my site.
00:37:20.160 -->
00:37:21.680Very good, Joseph.
00:37:22.400 -->
00:37:24.320I I honestly didn't know that.
00:37:24.560 -->
00:37:32.480No, it's just intuitively it's lifestong.net.
00:37:33.360 -->
00:37:33.760Life net.
00:37:34.080 -->
00:37:34.240Okay.
00:37:34.480 -->
00:37:36.240And you'll see about the fitness quadrant.
00:37:36.320 -->
00:37:41.680I've got some freebies in there, but there's a lot of information in there, and people can get in touch with me through there.
00:37:41.840 -->
00:37:46.000Uh, and my whole mission is to really help people that that want to do this right.
00:37:46.160 -->
00:37:47.600A lot of people don't want to do it right.
00:37:47.680 -->
00:37:49.280They they sort of skip through it.
00:37:49.440 -->
00:37:54.080And um Hey, we're all looking for cheats, we're all looking for hacks.
00:37:55.360 -->
00:38:11.360I mentioned most supplements are snake oil, but with my health conditions and that it I can't show you, but there's a dozen pill bottles over there, there's another dozen so bottles of supplements over there.
00:38:11.680 -->
00:38:16.320Yeah, so yeah, it's a it's it's a journey.
00:38:16.480 -->
00:38:18.480Uh some supplements are good, right?
00:38:18.560 -->
00:38:22.800So I have I have all that on my website here, some choices you may want to think about.
00:38:22.960 -->
00:38:24.400Um uh I have that.
00:38:24.480 -->
00:38:26.880I we set up home gyms for people.
00:38:27.040 -->
00:38:43.200So I have a list very inexpensive to set up a little workout area, and we actually have videos for at-home workouts, real basic, and we can get real complex if we want to, but this this is the way we're reaching out and trying to get people engaged in their health and longevity.
00:38:43.520 -->
00:38:45.600And um, it's been going very, very well.
00:38:45.760 -->
00:38:49.280The the the the other thing is the book, go on to Amazon.
00:38:49.440 -->
00:38:51.440If the spirit moves you, go on.
00:38:51.520 -->
00:38:55.280It'll be the best$18 you ever spend and just read through it.
00:38:55.440 -->
00:39:03.840I promise you, you're gonna get stuff out of this book that are gonna make you think, hmm, maybe I should start start doing a few things here.
00:39:04.000 -->
00:39:13.680Maybe I can't handle it all at once, which is fine, but just to trigger people to think about it a little bit, um, uh I I think is is a key issue.
00:39:13.840 -->
00:39:15.040Uh we don't bite.
00:39:15.120 -->
00:39:17.040We we just love when people communicate with us.
00:39:17.120 -->
00:39:22.560And of course, when we dive in to really write an ecosystem for people, we are all in for them.
00:39:22.720 -->
00:39:29.520We want them to succeed and really change their change their trajectory of their life.
00:39:29.600 -->
00:39:36.480And I ask everybody, once you're with me in we're doing these this training, please share it with your loved ones.
00:39:36.640 -->
00:39:41.840Share it with your kids, your spouse, get them engaged, pass on, you know, pass on the light.
00:39:42.080 -->
00:39:55.440Uh uh now I will tell you um uh with your podcast, Joseph, one of the reasons I was was uh uh really interested to connect with you is my entire life uh on top of the abuse and all that stuff.
00:39:55.520 -->
00:40:01.440I always got told that you know church was was was evil and it was bad and it's all this bad.
00:40:01.600 -->
00:40:09.120So I grew up thinking, ah, what is that stay away from those those Bible thumpers and the bit do all the stuff, right?
00:40:09.520 -->
00:40:10.720Well, let me tell you something.
00:40:10.880 -->
00:40:18.560Uh I got baptized four years ago, and um uh I am uh uh a full-on Christian.
00:40:18.720 -->
00:40:25.600Uh I absolutely am amazed at how comforting it is.
00:40:25.840 -->
00:40:30.000Oh, you're talking physical health is part of better mental health.
00:40:30.240 -->
00:40:30.480Absolutely.
00:40:31.760 -->
00:40:52.880And I was gonna close out with a joke, and since we're talking mental health now, and yeah, uh uh faith being a good strong part of that, and thank you, Timothy, straight from the mental ward for coming in for the benefit of the transcript.
00:40:53.040 -->
00:40:54.800He's laughing at the joke.
00:40:54.880 -->
00:40:56.400We're laughing, right?
00:40:56.640 -->
00:41:06.240The book is the goat within, the site is lifestrong.net, Timothy Ward, and guest appearance by Theo the Dog.
00:41:08.000 -->
00:41:08.720That's right.
00:41:08.880 -->
00:41:10.960I'll say hi to Theo for everyone.
00:41:11.680 -->
00:41:12.240Thank you.
00:41:12.400 -->
00:41:12.960Take care.
00:41:13.200 -->
00:41:13.840God bless.
00:41:14.000 -->
00:41:14.560You bet.
00:41:14.640 -->
00:41:15.280Thank you, Joseph.
00:41:15.360 -->
00:41:15.840God bless you.
00:41:15.920 -->
00:41:16.880Bye-bye.
00:41:21.440 -->
00:41:26.640As a family friend, I cannot wait to meet thee.
00:41:27.840 -->
00:41:29.440I feel already know you.
00:41:35.360 -->
00:41:38.000Watch the calendar turn.
00:41:38.640 -->
00:41:44.560Now a brand new heartbeat has made their whole world turn.
00:41:45.200 -->
00:41:50.720Little hands and tiny feet, a gift straight from above.
00:41:51.840 -->
00:41:57.040God already knew you formed you in his love.
00:41:58.400 -->
00:42:03.840We anxiously awaited little ones so deep.
00:42:05.200 -->
00:42:12.400Blessing in the backyard, you're the drawing off.
00:43:10.240 -->
00:43:18.880How to love and how to get how to stand up all good, even when life makes you bend.
00:43:20.640 -->
00:43:24.800Rooted deep in the faith, in the values they hold.
00:43:26.720 -->
00:43:28.400Every hug, every lip.
00:43:29.040 -->
00:43:33.760Point your heart told what it's good so good.
00:43:39.920 -->
00:43:49.440From the wall to take the following to the wall still yet to be the game of lucky falling.
00:45:51.920 -->
00:45:53.680Can you spare some time?
00:45:54.960 -->
00:45:57.360Fast-paced hectic days.
00:45:57.680 -->
00:46:00.320Need return to simpler ways.
00:46:00.640 -->
00:46:02.960Get it quick, need slow it down.
00:46:03.520 -->
00:46:06.160We lost and need be refound.
00:46:06.400 -->
00:46:08.320Can we turn it around?
00:46:12.160 -->
00:46:15.440We went from red lines to deadlines.
00:46:15.680 -->
00:46:18.080From brother, can you spare a dime?
00:46:18.720 -->
00:46:22.400To brother, can you spare some time?
00:46:25.040 -->
00:46:29.280Get it quick, need to slow it down.
00:46:30.880 -->
00:46:40.720All this gold can't buy solid ground, fast-paced hearts skipping every sign.
00:46:41.040 -->
00:46:42.960We're losing ground.
00:46:44.720 -->
00:46:48.320Brother, can you spare some time?
00:46:53.600 -->
00:46:56.000Scream below midnight.
00:46:56.720 -->
00:47:02.720I still wire chasing every little fire.
00:47:03.840 -->
00:47:11.760But the hot chocolates gone cold, the kids outgrown, and we missed it.
00:47:12.080 -->
00:47:21.280Scrolling on our phone, get it quick, need to slow it down.
00:47:22.720 -->
00:47:27.280All this gold can't buy solid ground.
00:47:28.320 -->
00:47:32.560Fast-paced hearts skipping every sign.
00:47:32.880 -->
00:47:34.960We're losing ground.
00:47:36.560 -->
00:47:40.080Brother, can you spare some time?
00:47:41.920 -->
00:47:45.280Maybe trade is a rush for a walk round the block.
00:47:45.520 -->
00:47:48.960Talk like we use to talk.
00:47:50.560 -->
00:47:54.560Hey, count and bless.
00:48:03.280 -->
00:48:04.640Get it quick.
00:48:06.320 -->
00:48:07.600Slow it down.
00:48:09.200 -->
00:48:13.760All this gold can play solid ground.
00:48:15.040 -->
00:48:19.120Fast based hearts get in every sign.
00:48:19.520 -->
00:48:26.640We're losing time.
00:48:46.960 -->
00:48:54.640We break, we mend, we got moves, we got ranges, quick flips, strange rearrangements.
00:48:55.200 -->
00:48:57.280Season shifting in our skin.
00:48:57.600 -->
00:48:59.760Quiet storms behind a grin.
00:48:59.920 -->
00:49:02.000One word whole day changes.
00:49:02.240 -->
00:49:04.560Heart rewrites its own pages.
00:49:04.800 -->
00:49:07.440We're just complex beings, that's what we are.
00:49:07.680 -->
00:49:10.080Puzzle piece, hearts, little bite-sized scars.
00:49:10.160 -->
00:49:13.280We got ups, we got downs, till we stick around on a dime.
00:49:13.360 -->
00:49:15.120We can turn and turn it all around.
00:49:15.440 -->
00:49:17.760Complex beings, tangled and true.
00:49:17.920 -->
00:49:19.600Half of me running, half running.
00:49:19.760 -->
00:49:21.120Do you complicate it?
00:49:21.280 -->
00:49:24.160Yeah, the book spells out the reasons.
00:49:25.200 -->
00:49:29.280But I love you through the chapters and the season.
00:49:32.400 -->
00:49:37.360You're a sunrise, you're a shutdown, you're a soft laugh in a letdown.
00:49:37.440 -->
00:49:39.360You go quiet and you're singin'.
00:49:39.600 -->
00:49:42.880Every mood, every shade still clingin'.
00:49:43.200 -->
00:49:44.960I'm a question in your doorway.
00:49:45.680 -->
00:49:47.680You're an answer said the long way.
00:49:47.840 -->
00:49:53.280Both hands full of tiny trees, and still we stay, still we stay through the reasons.
00:49:53.440 -->
00:49:56.080We're just complex beings, that's what we are.
00:49:56.320 -->
00:49:58.720Puzzle piece, hearts, little bites, size scars.
00:49:58.800 -->
00:50:01.920We got ups, we got downs, still we stick around on a dime.
00:50:02.000 -->
00:50:03.840We can turn it, turn it all around.
00:50:04.160 -->
00:50:06.400Complex beings, tangled and true.
00:50:06.560 -->
00:50:08.880Half of me running, half running to you.
00:50:08.960 -->
00:50:09.600Complicated.
00:50:09.920 -->
00:50:12.800Yeah, the book spells out the reasons.
00:50:13.840 -->
00:50:18.000But I love you through the chapters and the seasons.
00:50:21.440 -->
00:50:22.640Complex beings.
00:50:23.040 -->
00:50:28.560We have moods, we have arranges, seasons and changes.
00:50:30.560 -->
00:50:34.960We have ups and downs on a dime can turn it around.
00:50:35.280 -->
00:50:41.040Complicated the book spells out some of the reasons.
00:50:44.560 -->
00:50:54.880Complex beings, we got moods, we got ranges, little storms and I teacups, whole climates, seasons and changes.
00:50:55.040 -->
00:50:57.760We go quiet, we go wild, we go tender, then tough.
00:50:57.920 -->
00:51:04.000One word, one look, one moment can be a wake to merge.
00:51:04.640 -->
00:51:10.080We're just complex BS, breathing, tryna make some meeting.
00:51:10.480 -->
00:51:14.880From all these turns and twists inside, we fall apart, then realign.
00:51:15.040 -->
00:51:20.400We're just complex BS, reaching hearts, cracking open, healing.
00:51:20.800 -->
00:51:24.640We got ups and downs on a dime, can turn it around.
00:51:24.960 -->
00:51:28.640Oh, some days I'm the hero, some days I'm the doubt.
00:51:28.720 -->
00:51:31.600I'm the riddle and the rumor, and I'm still working it out.
00:51:31.840 -->
00:51:35.760Complicated like the book spells out some of the reasons.
00:51:36.240 -->
00:51:41.440Every chapter, every scar, every quiet little treason.
00:51:42.400 -->
00:51:52.320So if I change in the middle of a sentence, if I laugh when I'm breaking down, that's just all my different versions showing up at once right now.
00:51:52.480 -->
00:52:09.200Hey, we're just complex beings, breathing, tryna make some meeting from all these turns and twists and we fall apart.
00:52:10.400 -->
00:52:17.920Then realize we're just complex being reaching up, cracking open here.
00:52:35.680 -->
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