Podcast episode

Episode 30: Random Talk with Chris and Andrew

Hosted by Chris Albert

The Warrior Soul Podcast

In this episode we get into a lot of random stuff. Everything from fitness to consciousness to fecal fetishes. Not sure how we got to fecal fetishes, but it should be entertaining.

Transcript~78 min · Chris Albert & Andrew Marr

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Chris Albert

What is going on everybody out there in the Warrior Soul Nation, this is Chris Albert, the host of this show along with my brother Andrew Marr, and in this episode this is pretty much just a random show, I mean me and Andrew just kind of sit around and we talk about everything, and we get into everything from consciousness, to human behavior, to understanding how to overcome difficulties, to fitness, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, all the way down to shit eating and why people develop Fecal Filia. I don't know how that came up, but it came up. But before we get into the show, I just want to talk to you about some things we got going on over here at Warrior Soul. On the apparel side for Warrior Soul apparel, we have just started up the Warrior Soul Artist Partners Program, and this is your chance to send us designs. This is your chance, even if you can't make a picture, even if you're the worst artist in the world, send us an idea, and what we do is we put it together with some graphics, and we develop that idea into a T shirt, and we'll post that t shirt, and then we make you part of our affiliate program where you can earn commissions off of your own designs.

And even if you don't want to take the commissions, a lot of people are donating their commissions to charities. We just had a gentleman give us a shirt idea and he wants all of his commissions donated to the Semper Fi Fund. We've also got our partner charity, the Warrior Angels Foundation, you wanted to partner up with them, no pressure, if you want to take the commissions and you want to go out and spend it up for yourself, that's 100% fine too, but we basically wanted to give you guys a chance to give us your vision, let us know what you wanted to see on a T shirt, and that way we could help you create it and get it out there to market really easily, taking these barriers down to actually getting a piece of clothing that you want to be designed. So, you don't have to go through any crazy fashion buyer companies or anything like that, and come straight to us and we can help you out. So go check out warriorsoulfitness.com This episode is also brought to you by Warrior Soul Education and that is where we put together digital courses to help you to live your best life.

We just put out the Warrior Soul Fitness Foundations Course, and this course is phenomenal, it takes you through everything from, from developing your own fitness vision, setting your goals, to developing your own training program, your own nutrition protocol, we have an entire module in there on hormones, we have a cookbook in there, and we have an entire module on finding your own flow state. If you're looking to take your levels of performance to the next level, if you're trying to become a better father, a better business owner, better at your job, if you just want to look ripped as shit and muscular and just look good for the beach, we've got that in there for you too. And it's a really decently priced course, it's packed with all kinds of information, so those of you who are interested in taking your fitness to the next level, go check out warriorsouleducation.com. Okay, and finally this episode is brought to you by the Warrior Angels Foundation. This is a fantastic charity that was started by my brother and the co host of this podcast Andrew Marr.

Andrew is a retired Green Beret Special Operator, he served as a Breacher in Afghanistan on several tours and his job was to blow the doors off of places before the team went in, and day after day he was enduring concussion after concussion from the explosions that he was near and his brain was shaking back and forth in his skull, And he came home from Afghanistan without a scratch on his body, without ever being hit by anything, but he began experiencing depression, he began experiencing a lot of symptoms that looked like PTSD, and so there was an issue there, and the issue was that his brain stopped producing hormones and hormone precursors that were keeping his body in balance. Now this problem is a lot more widespread than a lot of people would know or would like to believe, and a lot of the symptoms that we see today that could be PTS could also be from these types of brain injuries. What the Warrior Angels Foundation does is it puts veterans and service members who've been impacted by traumatic brain injury in touch with treatments that can help them to replenish their hormones and replenish the neuro permissive environment that allow their brains to reproduce hormones and hormone precursors that will bring their bodies and their minds back into balance.

Andrew is extremely passionate about this issue, he's got a book coming out soon, and we want to help him in every way that we can, and the foundation definitely needs donations. If you are interested in helping out this phenomenal organization, head on over and check out waftbi.org again that's www.waftbi.org. Alright, and with that let's get into this crazy ass random show, and again like I said there's a lot of different things in here, so most of you will probably find it pretty entertaining and funny. There's a lot of awesome information in here as well. Hope you enjoy it.

This is Chris Albert, and I'm here to remind you of one thing. Some day, you're going to die. Now that's not some morbid statement or scary idea. It's solid fact. Your time here on this earth is limited, and we need to be reminded of this as much as possible for one simple reason, to live your best life while you can.

This is the Warrior Soul podcast.

Well, it's been a crazy, crazy month. I mean, did we do a I think we did a show after the election. Right?

Andrew Marr

Last show that we did was with doctor Sherr, with the with the HBOT, if you guys didn't catch that one, which was right, after the first of the year.

Chris Albert

That's the hyperbaric oxygen therapy, for those of you who didn't listen to it. Yeah. And since then, we've been working. We just haven't been doing shows. So, you know, we've met up a couple of times down there in LA.

We met up up here and then Andrews probably about to come out here pretty soon, think in a couple of days or a week or so. And, we've just been been going through this, this awesome thing we call life over here, man. I've been training like crazy over the last couple of weeks. And I don't know if it's because I feel myself. I think, like, a few weeks ago, I looked at myself in the mirror, and I said, dude, you're about to turn 38 years old this year.

And I was like, fuck. So I So, I made a comment, probably right after New Year's. I was like, I am going to be in the best shape of my life this year, and I am going to be the most in shape 40 year old that anybody has ever seen. Now, you probably all know 40 year olds who are in much better shape than me, but in my mind, that's what I'm saying. And I'm like, all right, I'm gonna hit the weights.

I'm gonna do jiu-jitsu. I'm going to freaking, I'm gonna do exercise throughout the day. So I'm like carrying kettlebells all the time. But the thing is, I also have to realize that I'm also older now. So recovery time takes a little bit more.

So I have to put a little bit more into my recovery time. So every once in a while I gotta take a little bit of a rest day. But on my rest days, I like active rest days. So, yesterday was supposed to be a rest day and then Sean and I went out to Joshua Tree and we did an eight mile hike. And I came home and my feet are freaking pissed off at me. They're like, dude, you just screwed us over like you haven't done since you were 23 years old. So the feet need some work. The feet Body's good. The feet need some work.

Yeah, dude. The feet definitely need some work. And not not to mention, they're all sliced up from jiu-jitsu. You know? Because when I first started jiu-jitsu, you know, that's the first thing that that takes kind of a beating because when I wrestled, I used to wear wear wrestling shoes, but now I'm I'm going barefoot.

I've got cuts cuts on the top of my feet, cuts on the sides of my feet, cuts on my toes, toenails. So that's

Andrew Marr

dude's nails?

Chris Albert

Or Yeah. Dude, my my no. It's it's, it's from the mats. The mats actually slice into your feet a little bit if you're going pretty hard. But, my toenails look like like trash.

So I had to I had to actually get my toenails done. Not like, I didn't get them like sealed and like have like, you know, nail polish put on them or anything like that, but had to get them cut and shaped and everything because I'm not real good at that. And they snag and then they get all caught up in the tent pole.

Andrew Marr

Listen, man. Like, when your when your feet is your livelihood or, how you earn a living or how you stay alive or keep others alive, then there there are some things that I just I shed no expense on or I save no expense on, and feet was one of them. So I used to do a quarterly, you know, pedicure, getting them clipped and shaped and everything else because that was just proper, you know, foot maintenance, especially when you're you're moving long distances and stuff like that. Mhmm. Yeah.

I mean, I knew a lot of a lot of dudes that did that.

Chris Albert

A lot of guys in the teams did that?

Andrew Marr

Yeah. Just good business. I mean, mean, you gotta take care of your feet. So if your nails nails are all jacked up and they're causing you pain or discomfort or causing you from putting out, you know, your best effort, then you need to look at how can I improve that?

Chris Albert

Yeah. The back when I was in the Marine Corps, I mean, I used to be fanatical about clipping my nails, clipping my toenails and things like that, especially my toenails. I mean, I got if I got yelled at for having long fingernails, that's one thing. But if you're on a hump and you got a toenail digging into your to your other toe, that's that's, like, one of the most painful things you could ever get.

Andrew Marr

Yeah. You're not gonna be able to stop thinking about that. So that's gonna be the center of your focus. So what else are you gonna think on? Nothing.

Just how much that sucks for however long that is. So, yeah, man. Do the prep work ahead of time. Go in there. It feels good.

Yeah. Especially get some hot Asian rubbing on it. It's awesome.

Chris Albert

Yep. That and gold bonding the balls. I was I was probably a big fan of gold bond back then. I I I kept it everywhere I went. And, it was, because that's another thing, man.

If you're if you're nuts or or or uncomfortable while you're hopping around, you're thinking about that.

Andrew Marr

Gotta take care of the nuts.

Chris Albert

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Andrew Marr

So you said you wanted to be in the best shape. So let me ask you the question. What constitutes the best shape, and then how do you formulate a game plan to then go after being in the best shape?

Chris Albert

So that was a big thing for me because I had to redefine what that is. And I think we all do as we get older. Because, you know, back in the day, was like, oh, dude. Do I have abs right now? Am I is is my situation all straight to go out and talk to the girls and everything like that down on the beach?

Now it's like, that's the furthest thing from my mind. Right now, want to be able to move. I to be able to get out of bed in the morning without pain. I want to be able to walk. I still want to be able to perform physically and mentally.

And how do I feel throughout my day? That's a huge factor. Like, do I still have energy by 2PM? Or am I getting headaches? Am I feeling tired?

Am I less energetic? Is my brain not working like it should? Cause that's what I'm using more now than ever. I also, I mean, I still want to look good as an older guy. I want people to think I'm still in my early thirties, late twenties.

And whether or not that happens, that's one thing, but but I want it I want it to be there in my mind. I want them to be like, oh, yeah, this this dude looks good. He can move. And he's a jiu-jitsu player. So so better not fuck with him.

You know what I mean? That kind of thing.

Andrew Marr

Yeah. For y'all for those of you who don't know, Chris has gone from, you know, the bearded bastard club to the baby face killer club now. So why'd you make the the switch to to shave the beard after such a long time having it? And it looks great, by the way. No homo.

Chris Albert

Oh, thanks, man. Yeah. I, you know, I I had never had a beard in my life. And and, when I was in the Marine Corps, of course, like, you know, I I I have these Italian genes, so I had to shave like three, four times a day sometimes just to keep the, the stubble from coming out. Jeez.

So so when I started the beard, the original reason why I started keeping it was because my girlfriend actually likes the beard better. But at the same time, it's like, when it's not groomed, it it starts digging into my skin and it gets so itchy. And I'm maybe I'm just I'm not man enough to do it, honestly.

Andrew Marr

I don't know about that, man. You had it for a long time. But change is good. Variety is the spice of life.

Chris Albert

Right? Yeah. And, that was the thing. I and I kinda missed it. And I'm planning on going to visit my mom soon.

So my mom really doesn't like it when I when I have a beard on. For some reason, she's she just wants to see me without the beard. So, you know, not not not that I'm doing everything that my mommy wants me to do, but, yeah, it's because it's what my mommy wanted me to do.

Andrew Marr

So Man, nothing wrong with that. Gotta make mommy happy. And speaking of mom, mom's in Connecticut, and we're talking about being up in New York that first weekend or was it the second weekend? It's April eighth and ninth April eighth and ninth. For the Tom Campbell event, his My Big TOE cultural connection. And so we're gonna put out some information on that, but if any fans of the show are wanting to go out and be a part of Tom's weekend seminar workshop, We have a special deal where we can get people in through Warrior Soul in the in the foundation. So be on the lookout for for that information.

Chris Albert

Yeah. Absolutely. If you hear this podcast and you wanna get in touch with us right away, just email me over at info@warriorsoulapparel.com, and we'll hook you up. We'll get you into the conference and everything. It's going to be a good time.

And if you have not listened to that episode with Tom Campbell, I highly suggest you do so. It's a really great episode. I think it's one of our highest listened to episodes. And, we get into some crazy stuff. And Tom a brilliant guy.

And as with everything, I think, the thing is with consciousness or anything you hear about, do your research, read about it, understand it, understand what people are trying to tell you, whether you are skeptical of it or not. If you're skeptical, I think you've got to do more research on it even, just to understand what Tom's talking about part of the time because it can get out there. But once you understand it and once you understand his theory, it's pretty phenomenal.

Andrew Marr

Well, what I love about Tom is one of his messages is to be open minded but skeptic skeptic at the same time. So here here's what he means by that. Keep an open mind if you don't know something to be true and then skeptical being meaning you're gonna do your own work to either confirm or deny it. And and what also, he's like, hey. All these things can be confirmed through your subjective experience.

So you would be foolish to take my opinion for it. Like, here's the model as it applies to me, and I think, you know, we can objectify this objective, and it's done through this, you know, scientific rigor that you can put into play on things that are not, quote, unquote, objectively observable. But through your own experience, you can go and validate that. And then, you know, that was kind of his his whole message without getting into the the the, you know, the nuts and bolts of it. Be open minded.

Be skeptical. Do your own work. Confirm or deny. Don't believe because a second or third party told you something, and you didn't do any work to, you know, verify that.

Chris Albert

Absolutely. And isn't that good advice for life in general too?

Andrew Marr

Yeah. No doubt, man. I I mean, it is. You know? You should be open minded but skeptic to everything.

Like, don't feel the need to tell anybody why they're wrong or right, especially if you have no experiential, you know, experience with that. If it's just purely philosophical, then the best thing to do is just accept some what somebody else says. And why would you wanna get upset or or let what somebody else thinks affect you negatively anyway? You know what I mean?

Chris Albert

Yeah. Yeah. That I mean, we live in the Internet age, and and this is an age it's it's awesome because communication is open. Like, anybody out there who has an idea, who wants to communicate it to others can do it. Right?

You don't have to go through any Hollywood producers. You don't have to go through any journalists or anything like that. Something pisses you off or something delights you and you want to help other people, then you can go out there and you can spread the word about it pretty easily. It doesn't cost anything. At the same time, what happens is there's a lot of people out there who haven't done their ten thousand hours to achieve mastery in different areas, who were really trying to spread advice.

And some of the advice they might be giving might be helpful. Some of the advice that they might be giving might send you down the wrong path. So it's important that, yeah, you keep an open mind, but you're really researching stuff and you're trying to understand ways of tearing arguments apart in your head so that you can understand when somebody's trying to pull your leg or not.

Andrew Marr

Yeah. And, you know, again, like, with Tom or with other people that you're trying to verify, you have to look at, okay. Well, what are what are they really trying to get after here? And if the thing is, like, if the individual is saying, hey. Don't take my word for it.

You need to experience it on your own, or I wanna make sure all of my content is free online so everybody has access to it. I don't want any following or no one is to follow or, you know, accept me as a teacher or or worship or religion or anything else. When somebody kinda takes that mindset and they make that known upfront, to me, like, I'm like, okay. Well, this person's pretty being pretty upfront or they're really scamming me. One of the one of the two.

Yeah. But they're coming out and saying, hey. I'm not doing this because I want you to follow me and and, you know, come into my to my you know, buy something from me or follow my cult. It's like, think this information is beneficial. Here's the here's the here's the stuff to support it, and here's where you can go and see if it actually applies to you and works for you, but don't take my word for it.

That's usually a good place to start work. Is this something that I can at least be is this something worth looking into? You know? Or is it just completely, you know, rubbish?

Chris Albert

Absolutely. How did you start listening to Tom? How did how did you first come in contact with everything he was talking about?

Andrew Marr

I saw some documentaries. I got into quantum physics just kind of out of curiosity, you know, going through all the different channels, learning about the brain, getting into neuroscience, getting linked up with doctor Gordon, going to neuroendocrinology, and, you know, learning some of these advanced concepts started to make me question other things that I hadn't really looked into. So that kinda led into some some basic physics and into quantum physics. And I saw a documentary with Tom in it, and he was talking about, like, you know, going and having out of body experiences and exploring the nonphysical matter reality as pure consciousness and all these things, and I was just fascinated by it. And then, you know, understanding or learning he was a NASA physicist and then, you know, worked with the DOD on the missile defense system, you know, for a number of years, I was like, okay.

Well, this is an intelligent dude. He's got some interesting things that viewpoints or worldviews I've never heard before. Kind of interested to hear a little more about it or or see a little bit more about what information he's putting out. Then saw you know, he had his book trilogy where explained his theory of everything, and I thought it did a really elegant model. So wanted to continue to just kind of find that information out for myself and went out to one of his lectures he was doing out out in LA.

And long story short, we linked up and had dinner together and and kinda friendship grew from there, and I had him on the show. But, yeah, I just found him to be a really fascinating and interesting dude. Then getting to meet him and now both of us meeting them meeting him and his crew, I mean, he is absolutely a fascinating, brilliant, brilliant man.

Chris Albert

Yeah. You know, I used to study theory for a bit back when I was a little bit confused and wondering what I wanted to do. So I was hanging out with the hipsters up at UC Santa Barbara for a while while I was working on a PhD. And, I studied theory. And the biggest question I like to ask people about theory is this, how has Tom's theory helped you to understand life better?

Right? Because I think in essence, what he's trying to do is he's trying to make people understand life a little bit better and the nature of what we consider reality and How things like has it helped you to understand this life better, everything you've gone through, from special forces to the struggles met afterwards, what does it taught you?

Andrew Marr

Well, I think one, that's a great question. And two, you don't have to get into the larger consciousness system or the nature of reality or the double slit experiment or anything else. You know, when it goes down to it, his his theory used by supporting science and metaphysics says, basically, when you boil it all down, you always have an option and a choice, and those two choices are on the opposite end of the spectrum. So one being fear, motivated by fear, which you might not know that's manifesting as fear. It's coming out as something else.

But when you follow that thread back to the original place, it's most likely a fear, and that fear is tied to probably a belief system that you downloaded, you know, from your environment at a very young age unknowing to yourself, and now you're carrying out negative behaviors or negative things in your life that aren't producing a quality of life that you think that, you know, you should be living. So that's one aspect of it, kinda understanding, you know, fear and then what happens when you let fear rule your decision making or or rule your life. And then understanding that if fear is one option, the other option is on the far end, love. So we have the, you know, diametrically opposed things, fear and love. And so at every decision decision, at every at every choice point, you have an option to say, I'm gonna go this way or I'm gonna go that way.

And what it does when he talks about, you know, we're all a part of the we're individuated units of consciousness, of a larger consciousness system, what that says is that nothing is by chance or something that you didn't help to create at some form or fashion or level of your personal reality. So if you don't like your personal reality, it's because that's something that you created either consciously or subconscious or unconscious. So by becoming conscious of those actions that are no longer serving you or have never served you, you just haven't been conscious of it, And the best way to become conscious of that is through the meditative process where you can begin to cultivate or become familiar with an old level of self or old state of being that led you to think, act, and feel in a certain way. And if how we think and how we act and how we feel is our personality, then we need to analyze, okay. Do I need to change how I'm thinking, how I'm acting, and how I'm feeling to create new choice sets in my life to bring on new experience.

Because what Tom said is in the end, what really matters is that he says grow to your level of your consciousness, and you do that by becoming love. You're that being level. That's not something that you're you're attempting to be or you're that's your persona on Facebook. You are that, and you are that as evidenced by a large body of work. And so that that's a lot of things saying basically that life is where you can be it's you can be a victim or you can be a victor.

Victim or victor. You know, the choice is solely up to you, and you can decide to change things and pick out a new probability distribution that is out there in the infinite sea of multiplicity of probable decisions or futures that are out there. So if that is the future, a sea of probability, then whatever you could imagine already exists in that sea of infinite possibility. So identify with clear intent what you think that future should be and then have that energetic signature of that future collapse from the wave on down to a particle, which means it went from the energetic level all the way manifesting into form into physical reality. So, you know, I think those are some key key takeaways.

Chris Albert

Yeah. I think, you know, that that's the basic thing I I I get from it, you know, and just from having the conversation with him and reading what I've read. Now, I mean, when people look at it, you know, as far as explaining it in terms of virtual reality, I understand why a lot of people would be like virtual reality, well, and I think in some ways that almost blocks that major understanding that it's about love rather than fear or trying to choose love rather than fear. One of the things I really like about the theories is if you look at philosophers, the stoic philosophers like Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, I mean, this is a lot of stuff they were talking about thousands of years ago during the Roman empire and just expressing notions that if you're angry, you choose to be angry. If something is making you mad, you've chosen for it to make you mad. And there's nothing bad in this world that can happen to you unless you see it as bad. Even death, I think Epictetus talks about death can be looked at as a positive thing if you look at it in the right way.

And that's usually you have more control over your fate than you think you do. And that doesn't mean that you need to be overly optimistic about your fate, you're living in a false reality or anything like that. But it means that you're not trapped. Wherever you are, no matter how bad it is, you're not trapped. You're not resigned to some miserable existence. And the reason why you're not resigned to it is because you choose whether or not you're going to be miserable or not.

And that's the big thing.

Andrew Marr

Yeah. I mean, you're talking about determinism. And in a deterministic model, you know, it's already been decided. And if that's the case, then, you know, you're you are your DNA. You know, you are whatever circumstances in your life.

That's just it, and you have no control over it. Well, that is if that were to be the case, I mean, what a horrible existence to live in thinking, you know, whatever I do is irrelevant. It has no meaning or no merit. It has no opportunity to change or bring about a different experience or even a different choice set. And what his model is saying is, no.

You do have an option because you do have the ability to have you have free will. You are at some level you know, you you are conscious, and so you can choose a different outcome, can choose a different potential, a different possibility that exists in the future and make that more probable than the current current course of action that could could happen based on your past performances.

Chris Albert

Yeah. It's and and, again, I think it I mean, the lesson there is it comes down to personal responsibility and choosing the way in which you want to live. In some ways, way I say that I'm almost like, that's a very big privilege we have here living in the Western world, living in The United States, because a lot of people in different places around the world would look at us, would look at what we're talking about right now, and they'd be like, no, man. I mean, if you're living in South Sudan, or if you're living in in in, certain places that you've been, a lot of ways, I think your choices become a lot limited. You know, a lot of ways, choices as to how you're going to live become a lot limited, a lot more limited.

And, when we see things like starvation, poverty, things like that, unless and I don't think there's anybody who's listening to this podcast who could ever say they've experienced it to that level. But when we go through something over here and we're having a bad day and we've got lots of work piled up in front of us, at the end of the day, I'm still going to go to sleep in a warm bed at night or sleep on my floor like I do sometimes. Even if I'm sleeping on my floor, that's better than so many other people. So, it's easy to see how human beings could see themselves as being limited.

Andrew Marr

You know, it's yes. If they buy into that belief system. And, yes, your your people are dealt into different socioeconomic situations. But if anybody ever rose up out of that occasion or was happy in spite or despite of that occasion, then you have to ask the question, well, can I do it too?

Andrew Marr

And the answer is absolutely you can. So, again, there is different level of experiences and different levels of choices that can be made. And your ability to have to choose more options, that might be limited by certain things that you don't have any control over. But then, again, there are people in these societies, South America, where you think that they're living in poverty, and they're the happiest people that you ever met. And they're content because they don't have any idea of, well, I don't have what has much sight my neighbor has, or we need two cars instead of one car.

They've learned how to, you know, kinda live with one with with nature and really prosper. So I think, you know, that's there's obstacles and there's opportunities. And you're always gonna have a a person who says, but you don't understand my story. Let me tell you my story so I can validate myself and you can both understand, you know, how I'm choosing to suffer.

Andrew Marr

Or you can say, this is an opportunity, and we can make some different decisions or some different choices and hopefully drive some different outcomes. But at least at that point, you're saying, okay, well, it's gonna come up to me to handle the situation differently if I wanna change it.

Chris Albert

Yeah. I I mean, I think in a lot of ways, all the all the bullshit we have coming at us all day long from other people's lives, from Facebook feeds, from Instagram feeds, from the media in general, the big media in general, I think in a lot of ways, all the shit we get thrown at us takes us further away from that ideal. And it sucks because we look at other people's lives and a lot of times we create our own reality based off of that, looking at what other people have as opposed to what we have or what other people are going through over the course of other people's lives and being jealous and things like that. And it's weird, but in a lot of ways communicating with each other more on these different levels and letting people into our personal lives has been, I think worse for bringing consciousness together or worse for creating new and better ideas. It's it's led to a lot of hate and jealousy.

Andrew Marr

I I would agree with with that. And I think, you know, a large degree is because if we don't have an ideal self already outlined or have you know, we have already created who we think we should be, your our ideal version of ourselves, and we're not consciously going over that on a daily basis saying, hey. Am I living up to this ideal self that I have? And if not, what what changes do I need to make? Because if you don't have that if you don't have that in play, it's really easy now to start looking for somebody or something else to give you validation or merit in your own life.

And when when and now you're looking for distractions, anything that can distract you from looking internally or doing, you know, your internal work or what you have to do to improve yourself, and you're looking for all these different things that are out, could be alcohol, the, you know, the Internet, pornography, what what whatever. And you you get distracted and you start going down this road because you're not actively or consciously pursuing your best self because you haven't taken the time to identify what that should be. And it's really easy to get caught up in this rat race and get distracted or caught up in who has what or how can I get what I don't have and then keep what I do have and not let anybody else get what I have, then we've created, man, this really horrible, selfish mindset that's living out of fear or under the constant hormones of stress because you're living in a constant fight or flight mode because you're getting all worked up about things that have bring no value into your life? Again, if you could just take a moment to center ourselves and understand, hey. I don't think this is this is not what life is about.

This doesn't really, bring about purpose or fulfillment. Let me take some step back, some steps back, and reidentify who I think I want to be. And then let me identify who I am right now. And if who I am right now is not matching up with who I think my ideals my ideal self is, I need to become familiar with how I think, how I act, and how I feel and consciously make plans to change those things so I can always be working to my ideal self and not get distracted by all the lights, bells, and whistles of, you know, our culture today.

Chris Albert

Yeah. I think, you know, going back to what we were talking about at the beginning, one of the reasons why I started jiu-jitsu, I started, you know, doing all this stuff after the new year was because I felt like other people's image of me in, you know, I was getting a little bit older. I'm putting a little gray on, which is okay. And I'm cool with that portion of my life starting, but I don't want to end up acting like people expect of me, you know, as I'm getting older. I don't want anybody coming to me and saying, hey, you know what?

You gotta start saving for your retirement. You know, why don't you go over there and ditch ditch this clothing company thing and Warrior Soul? Why don't you go get a job over there at the MAP company across town or if you start figuring something out there? And, I think back to college, why did I go to college in the first place? Didn't need to go to college.

I spent so much time in school after I got in the military. I wasted years and I think like, well, why did I do that? It's because that's what everybody else was doing and I didn't want to be a disappointment. And if I'd only taken a little bit of time and sat down and thought about what I really wanted, then I'd be way further ahead than I am right now. And, I guess the big point is, just don't do shit because it's what other people are telling you is good to do.

I mean, it's simple as that. And even your parents, and I hate to say this because my mom worked her ass off for me as a kid and I'm not downing my mom whatsoever. She's the best mother in the world, but she was so adamant about me going to college and so adamant about me trying to become a lawyer or trying to become a doctor or something like that. She hated when I went in the military. And it's just, if I didn't feel that guilt that I had about, you know, not going with her wishes, and I didn't allow myself to feel that guilt or really understand where that guilt was coming from, guess you could say, because I think it's important that you feel it and then you analyze it, you feel it, you realize it's going on and then you analyze it.

I think if I'd done that, then it would have been a much different situation. And I tried to do that with everything now. That's a big lesson I learned there.

Andrew Marr

Well, yeah, man. I mean, we get we're conditioned to to kinda act and and and be that way and and never think twice about it. And you never stop to think, well, what is it that I want? Or how do I best contribute? You know?

What are my best ways that I give back? And instead, we're there's always this constant rush for acceptance based off of nothing that that individual really, really wants to be doing, and then you get caught up living a life that you don't wanna be living because you're not doing anything that you really are passionate about or you think drive purpose and fulfillment. You're doing something because you thought just you didn't want anybody else to think a certain way about you or you wanted to hang out with a certain crowd so that crowd acted that way. And then you got in there with that crowd and you realized, man, these people have more problems than I do.

Chris Albert

Oh, yeah.

Andrew Marr

And, you know, and and that's someone the fallout, I I I think, from that. You know? And but, you know, that's part of the evolution. And then your evolution as a human being is realizing, you know what? From mom's plane of awareness, from all her experiences in in life, she was offering up the best advice that she knew how to give at that time.

You know, I mean, we can get and I know and I'm not speaking to you here, Chris, whatsoever because I know you love your mom, but, you know, we can get all upset and wanna, you know, blame mom and dad for this and, you know, and say, well, you know, you guys said to do this, and I did that and everything else. If you guys take a step back and say, man, are they trying to actually was their intent to be harmful to me, or were they just acting on what they thought was the best thing or the best advice to give, which was probably something that they heard or saw somebody else do and never really got to analyze or get to that point? So you as a as a more evolved, you know, growing person can realize that, show compassion at the same time, and then realize, you know what? I I don't have to I don't have to go and be what somebody else, you know, thinks or wants me to be. Like, where I'm at now, like, most of the internal strife that I have is cutting the last ties that I have to worrying about what somebody else might think about what I'm doing or how I handle a certain situation, you know, be it with the foundation or with Warrior Soul or with how, you know, I choose to parent or or anything else, if it's truly living up to my ideal self and I'm contributing and performing to the best of my abilities as I so described, you know, in in my internal, you know, chart, so to speak, then what does it matter what anybody else says or thinks?

And why am I so worried? Why is that fear there in the first place about what somebody else thinks who really doesn't have my ultimate best interests at hand? They're just spouting out some information that they think is culturally relevant based on, you know, what everybody else is doing. I think we've all fallen in that category from time to time.

Chris Albert

Well, yeah. I mean, they don't have to live your life. You've got to live with your life. That's the big I mean, your mom, your dad, as much as they love you, they don't have to live your life. Right? Yeah. Same thing here.

I don't doubt that my mom was giving me the best advice that she could at the time based off of her experience. I put the fault on myself because I didn't actually do the research. I just accepted what people were telling me and then just went. Because I was an adult at the time. And that was the thing.

Was just, I had a lot of guilt and didn't handle my guilt in the proper way. And that's something that can hold so many people back. How much do we keep ourselves doing things that we don't want to do because of guilt, because we feel like we're not doing the right thing, because we feel like we need to please somebody else. And when at the end of the day, you're the only one who has to live with you. The one you have to live with for the rest of your life.

And, if you're not following what you really want to do or you're not discovering what you really want to do, I think that's more following, more than following, more so than following because so many people they don't go out there and actually understand the world before they dive into whatever it is they want to do with their lives. Whether that be getting a job, whether that be entering the military, whether that be anything, you know, and that's the thing too. I'm so happy that I served in the military. I'm so happy that I was able to serve my country and I had that privilege. But I also understand that that's shitting for everybody.

You know, there's a lot of aspects of it that, you know, not everybody should serve. Some people that are like, well, wish we still had the draft where, everybody had to serve and I think everybody should be in service, but I don't think everybody's meant to serve in the military. Certainly not everybody's meant to be in special forces. So, So, with everything we do, we have to understand what role we want to play with our lives. What role do we want to take in our lives?

And sometimes you have to understand what you're good at and what you're not first. You have to go out there and get your face rubbed in the dirt a little bit so that you understand where your weaknesses are and where your strengths are. And if we lie to ourselves and we say, you know what, shit, I'm gonna go in the army and I'm gonna get all that glory and become an officer. Then you have an officer who was never meant to be there in the first place, is now given the possibility of putting other people's lives in danger. So follow your passion, figure out what your passion is first, then follow that passion and then really understand what your strengths and weaknesses are.

Andrew Marr

Yeah. It's having a defined, clear intent. If you can't get a clear intent, how are you ever gonna understand if you're getting closer or further away from it? But, you know, that that again, that takes experience, and that takes different opportunities to to cut to, you know, to cultivate a self that understands how to pursue different opportunities. So my advice would be to don't be in such a rush.

You know? Try to expose yourself to as many different and adverse things as you possibly can to add all those experiences into your toolkit to now become a more well rounded person. And who knows? You might be exposed to something that you had absolutely no exposure to as a child or, you know, a young adult, and you had no idea that this was a real passion or maybe, you know, you've developed or derived some serious purpose from, you know, doing acro yoga. I don't know.

But how do you know unless you go out there and you try it? You don't. And if you're worried about what somebody else thinks or what's this you know, the your society or your culture thinks or it's taboo for some weird reason, you never you could be missing out on some of the incredible advantages that we have afforded to us for being born as a human. So it's, you know, it's our birthright to be able to explore these areas.

Chris Albert

Or being born as a human in this time period where you can be exposed to all this stuff from the comfort of your own home, from your cell phone, from all these different things, you know, rather than than staring at some girl showing off her ass on Instagram. Use that thing to go out and learn something. I mean, could still still do the the the looking at ass thing, but but go out there and, you know, look something up. You don't understand something, look it up. If if you you always thought about doing a certain kind of career, especially you young guys, look it up.

Figure out what you gotta do. Figure out the path, you know, try and understand what other people have done done before you. And then see what your where your heart is. Because that's the other thing. Like, if your heart's not into something, don't lie to yourself.

Tell yourself that, hey. I'm gonna do this now. I'm gonna be the best. I'm gonna work. I'm gonna climb the mountain.

I'm be rocky. You know?

Andrew Marr

Mhmm. Yeah. You know, I me and my brothers were huge fans of Arnold growing up and then Tony Robbins as well. And both of those guys had kind of idea, like, hey. If I wanna do something and I and I don't have any experience or exposure to it, then I go out and I find somebody who's been successful at it at some level.

And I start asking them quality questions, And I start noticing, okay. Well, how does that person think? How does that person act? How does that person feel? How does that person respond to these situations?

And then it's really easy. You say, okay. Well, how can I incorporate that in those same principles and characteristics that have already been tried and true in my own, you know, inner workings and apply that to me being able to do that? And now you have a a much higher propensity of being able to, you know, be that or become that. But if you're just going out there and you're taking swings in the dark, the odds are that you're gonna be successful at something new are probably slim to none.

So it's a really easy concept. They call it modeling. Go out there and find somebody who's already done it. And if you already know somebody in that network, then you can get one on one. If not, then go and read a book on one of the the on on whoever is the best at that.

And what did that person do? What did they have to go through? What did they have to what did they have to think like? You know? Did people tell them that they could or they couldn't do it?

And how do they respond to that? Did they have a vision that nobody else saw, and did they have the fortitude to stick to it even though it was nonsense, meaning it couldn't be sensed by any of the senses or it wasn't in the physical reality yet. It was just in that individual's mind. So go out and and find people to get inspired like that who've already done it. And then it doesn't and it doesn't even have to be in the field that you're talking about.

But just looking at, okay. Well, what have successful people done over the course of time? And then, you know, we probably should define success, but what does that look like? What are the great people who really wanted to make a difference and change a way of thinking? What do those people act like?

How do they respond to adversity, or do they see it as opportunity? Then you can start taking those and applying it to your life and you're going be better for it.

Chris Albert

Arnold's book Total Recall, I think that's one of the books that's had the biggest impact on me. I know it's kind of stereotypical because I used to be a bodybuilder, but when I looked at him when I was a kid, I was like, this guy came from Germany, landing in California. Now he just gets to hang out on the beach, not do anything all day except workout, and then he gets photos taken of him. And then he walks into the Olympia, he just gets gets first place. And I was like, man, that would be so cool.

And I told my mom, was like, dude, I wanna I want I didn't say dude to my mom. She would have backhanded me. But I was like, mom, I wanna move to California and live out of my car for a while when I'm in my twenties. And she said, Christopher, are you out of your fucking mind? What the fuck?

She almost backhanded me right there. But the reason why I'm getting into this is because, you know, everybody looks at Arnold and they look at that movie Pumping Iron and they're like, yeah, this dude's got it made. But when you read his book, you see how much work he put into it. You know, writing down the rules. He's starting up his own businesses when when, you know, before he actually made it.

He was a millionaire before before he ever won an Olympia. And even when he won the Olympia, the check was like for $300 or something like that. You know? And and, he'd been doing real estate investment. He'd been he'd run a brick laying business.

He ran a a a masonry business. And he'd been doing his own products and things like that for a long time before he ever made it to Hollywood. Hollywood was just kind of something that he did because he wanted to do it.

And so that's Yeah.

Andrew Marr

You take politics out of it. Take, you know, anything that you agree or don't agree with his, you know, personal life choices. What you can't argue with is that man had a vision, had no resources virtually, didn't have great genetics, and said, okay. I have a vision. I feel like this is my purpose, this future reality.

What do I need to do? What would I need what do I need to act like and do today to be able to become that tomorrow? And who else is out there that could help get me to that way? You know? And he went out with it relentlessly, and he was never afraid to ask questions.

He was never afraid to get to look bad in front of somebody or, you know, to fail. You know, no fear of failure. Just going after it, setting a vision, finding out people to help you get closer get you closer to it, and he got on it. And, I mean, that that is about as admirable thing I I can say about anybody who said, despite whatever happens, I know that we're gonna find a way to be resourceful with no resources, to have vision when people say you can't do it. When they say, you know, you don't speak English and you have no money and you can't get to America, much less go into Hollywood or be mister Olympida.

He said, I don't don't care what anybody else says. The hell with that. I'm gonna do it. Because he had he had a strong vision, and he matched that with the elevated emotion and he went after it.

Chris Albert

Yeah. Well, he did have great genetics. We have to say that. I mean, like, if you see pictures with that guy when he was 15 years old, I mean, he'll make me right now look like I was a 12 year old boy. So so it's not a he's definitely got that.

But, but the idea that he did become such a big actor without you know, with his accent and everything, and he turned his accent even into something that was a was a positive. He's turned his accent into some there's an old story about area Arianna Huffington, whether you like her or not, whatever. I don't I'm not a big fan, but but the one thing we could say is that her she turned her accent into a positive too. It's part of what she does. People like her because of her freaking accent, you know.

And even Trump Trump's hair. Right? Some people are like, oh, he's got ridiculous hair, but it's his marker. That's his freaking card, you know. He's fucking putting himself out there.

You don't give a fuck that he's got a crazy, crazy haircut. I don't think any of his freaking fans got give a fuck either. They they they just love what he says, you know, and it's part of his personality now. So But

Andrew Marr

Yeah. I mean yeah. So, you know, that's just a prime example of how you can turn something that you think that is not a positive into a positive or, you know, find a different way, the different perspective to turn a obstacle into opportunity. Because, again, you always have that choice. Yeah.

You always have the ability to say, well, how can I how can I change this? Or how can I learn from this? Because if we continue to do these these same things that produce these same results and we're not learning from it, man, we're caught in that vicious cycle, and the same actions are gonna produce the same results. And so if we want some different results, we're gonna figure out how to do some different actions.

Chris Albert

Yeah. And that's another thing about what you said there before was, you know, Arnold's fucked up. You know? He he was buried into the Kennedy family. And then he went around, he had himself some affairs.

You know? He he was he had an affair with that woman who played, Ivan Drago's, wife for a while. I forgot what her name is, but

Andrew Marr

Yeah. The Russian in, Rocky four.

Chris Albert

Yep. Yeah.

Andrew Marr

Yeah. Yeah.

Chris Albert

He had an affair with her. He had an affair with his little maid. He had he had a few affairs. Then and the thing is, a lot of us, you know, we fought. Dude, I was a fucking dog back in the day.

I was horrible. I was an alcoholic. I fucking drank my ass off. And I think about and I used to you know, I had a girlfriend back then and and I was a I was a fucking cheater. I was a little dog, you know, but I think a lot of guys are in their early twenties.

But I spent so many years where I was like, oh my God, I can't believe how much I fucked up. How many times I screwed myself over by getting too drunk. How many times I was with this girl or that girl or anything like that. And I was tearing myself up apart, tearing myself apart about it for years to a point where I was like, dude, I'm not worth anything. Who the hell would want to be with me?

What girl is going to give me a chance given what I've done in my past and things like that? And I think a lot of guys do that because we all go through some mild years. We go through our years where we're not too certain in who we are, where we're not, and this is not condoning that kind of behavior at all. I'm just saying that if you've done it, there is no reason to fucking hate yourself. And I think that's why people tear celebrities apart when they make mistakes.

Like the Donald Trump, grab him by the pussy kind of thing. Donald Donald wasn't sitting there being like, oh my God, I can't believe I got caught trying to impress Billy Bush and freaking, you know, I said these things. He was like, I don't give a fuck. And we want him to be like, oh my God, I can't believe I said that. I am so embarrassed by this.

I am so, so screwed by this. But he's not. He's not tearing himself up about it. Regardless of what you think of him, the biggest thing that's going to tear you tear you apart is yourself. Right?

And you're going to tear yourself apart for shit that may be as big as what Donald Trump said. I'm not trying to minimize what he said. I'm not trying to condone it. Or you might be tearing yourself up because you saw a girl you liked and you tripped over yourself. Or you might be tearing yourself apart because maybe you had a breakup in your past and it's your conscious that's getting you down.

You think that you weren't good enough to make that relationship happen. And I think what we have to stop doing is ripping ourselves apart so much. We have to realize that we're fallible, realize that we're not really gods and goddesses, and realize that if we fuck up, we can build ourselves back up. It's not anything that that can really hold us back. And I think a lot of the stuff we think that's holding us back really isn't.

It's just a fucking illusion we're building up in our mind because we wanna rip ourselves apart. We don't love ourselves enough.

Andrew Marr

Yeah. I think, you know, we don't have to take things so seriously. You know? That that's step one. Like, it's not that serious.

And then step two is if you're if you're gonna continue to beat yourself up, you're you're creating a a line of thinking there that's actually reflected. Like, every every thought, every action, every person that ever experienced in your life is reflected in the makeup of your of your brain. So your brain is a reflection of that, and it's actually changing at at all times. And if you're continuing to continuing to think about, oh my god. You beat yourself up.

You're living by guilt, or you got you got in a breakup, and you just felt awful. No one ever is gonna love you again, and this person, you know, was was the one, and you don't have it anymore. You know, do you think that that other person is sitting around the house crying for days on end thinking their life's over?

Chris Albert

Fuck, man.

Andrew Marr

Or do they or do they go do they choose to go out and go do something else? You know what I mean? So you've just given that person that power over you. You've just given all your power away to somebody else because you said something outside of me is responsible for for making me happier, driving fulfillment or happiness. And, you know, it's we're giving our power away when we do that.

Yeah. I just realize realizing when you get caught up in that thought process, Chris, again, what I was saying with the brain is, okay. Now you're creating that neural network in your brain that says, okay. Well, I am unworthy, and you start to feel like you're unworthy. And so the thoughts are gonna produce a chemical, which is an emotion, and that emotion is gonna start to become more and more prevalent.

And so now you've gone from a mood, and you've remembered you've remembered this mood for a few days or a week, and it's gone into a temperament, and now it's become a new personality trait. And that person, when you go back to it, you say, hey. Why are you still acting this way? And it's because, well, so and so broke up with me six months ago, and I am hurt, and let me tell you about my story. Well, that person has now just through their line of thinking made their past become their future.

And so if you don't want your past to be your future, you have to make changes in the present. And you do that by focusing on what you do want as opposed to what you don't want. And that's how they can start to get over it. And then, again, you gotta think, if I'm beating myself up, if I'm just doing if I'm just criticizing myself and I'm not doing anything constructive to learn from it or, you know, what could I learn? What are the takeaways from this relationship?

What did I love about this relationship? Okay? Well, I wanna keep that in my next one. And then what did what did I not like? What did I not value?

Or how did I how was I disrespected? So what do I need to do differently on my end in the next relationship, and what do I wanna look for differently in my next one? And let's work on creating your ideal situation for your ideal relationship and going out and finding that. Or you can sit there and you can cry about what isn't and what what won't be anymore, and I don't think that will get you any closer to where you think you should be.

Chris Albert

Yeah. It's it's fucking it's crazy because I think so many people hate themselves. So many people don't have enough love for themselves to actually do that kind of analysis and they undervalue themselves. In the process, they also overvalue what other people think and they overvalue what other people think so much that we actually think that we're more important in other people's minds than we actually are. You know, back when I used to study psychology, I think it was something like we overvalue our presence in other people's minds by almost like 75% when people have taken like different types of questionnaires.

It's crazy because that also, I mean, it keeps us in hate mode a lot of times because we think when we hate somebody, we think that that person's doing everything they possibly can against us. Right? Like, and it goes all the way down from the people, you know, personally, all the way up to, you know, the president of The United States. How many people are out there saying right now, Trump is personally out to get me or who were saying that Barack Obama personally made these laws to make my life miserable. And, that's, it's insane how much we make these things make us miserable, how much we cause these things to make ourselves miserable.

Now, you know, when we think about politics, there's things that people consider right or wrong. There's things that people consider violations on their freedom. And then there's things that people consider to be protected, and that they're willing to accept violations on their freedom in order to be protected. And I have my political views and things like that. I try not talk about them as much as possible on here, because I want people to form their own opinions.

But in a lot of ways, I think so many of us, when we start to look at CNN every second or we look at Fox News every second and we're trying to follow these issues because we're worried about how they're personally going to affect us. We overvalue that so much too because we're sitting there, trying to process these news stories, trying to be up on them, trying to be able to argue with our friends who might have opposite political views to us and trying to figure out, you know, what is this per what is what is Donald Trump doing right now? Well, I wanna know because it's gonna make me more pissed off. And I wanna be pissed off right now because otherwise I wouldn't be looking at the news. If I get to recommend anything, limit your looking at the news.

Limit your looking at the popular media. Get out there, learn about the world as much as possible. But the regular media, they're going to sit there and they're going to make you fucking hate everything. Or they're going to make you hate them, which I think CNN's doing right now with a lot of people. Or they're going to fucking just try and put a bunch of fear into your head about what you need to be worried about, how much more you need to hate the president of The United States, how much more you need to hate the people of the opposite.

And they're just going to try and bring more hate in your life.

Andrew Marr

Yeah. I don't see that as a good thing. And if it bleeds, it leads. And they're trying to get ratings. And so they're saying anything or putting anything awful they can on there to basically that spawn these fear tactics that people respond to.

And so if you think that the world happens to you instead of the world happening for you, then guess what? That's exactly what's gonna happen, and you're not gonna have any control. And you're gonna start having all these things happen in your life that you just feel like you don't have any control over. It just continues to get worse. And the people would think, you know what?

I think the world happens for me. And if it doesn't, I I'm gonna continue to go out there and make choices and decisions that are driving me to the future that I want or that I know is not only gonna benefit me, but it's gonna benefit myself and and everybody around me. How can I look for a a win win agreement or a win win? How how can we strategize a win win instead of somebody always just getting buried and, you know, talking shit about the other side? Can we ever stop to think and look at different perspectives and realize like, hey, man.

Are we just talking about polar opposite ends of the spectrum here, and why are we even wasting time? And what what does it matter if this person doesn't accept or like the viewpoint I have? Can I just respect them and allow them to say, okay? We're not gonna agree on this, and, okay. That's where we'll go.

That's where we'll leave it. And go go on about our business.

Chris Albert

Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely, man. Absolutely.

Andrew Marr

Yeah. After the point now, Chris, like, I I don't I don't feel the need to defend anything, to run anybody down, to, like, oh, you know, no. No. Well, let me let me give a rebuttal to that because I'm worried about what somebody else is gonna think about me if I don't respond to this. It's like, hey, man.

That's totally that's fine. If you don't we don't see eye to eye, that I respect your point of view, and I'm I'm not trying to change it. You know? So I choose to live my life. I wish you the best.

Go on and live your life how you wish to live it, and we'll just we'll just do it on, you know, different different areas. You know? I don't I don't have to you know, we don't have to have these toxic people in our lives. And I think when when we do or we continue to expose ourselves to toxic people in our environment, then we're letting our environment dictate, you know, how we are in our in our state of being. I'm saying, well, let's figure out how we can affect our environment instead of having our environment affect us in negative way.

Chris Albert

Yep. And you also got to realize when people are going to try and force you into corner on stuff like that too. A lot of times, family dinners, holiday dinners, things like that, you're forced into these political conversations and you're forced to start to talk about things. And there's a member of my family out here in California. I don't want to say his name, but, when, we go to go to holiday dinners, this guy, he has opposite political views to what I have, and he knows this.

So he'll talk about stuff out loud. I will avoid it. I'll walk the other way. I'll go outside. I'll I'll start, you know, having a conversation with someone else.

But he'll just try and force me into these conversations, you know, about things like gun rights. And and, you he's very anti gun, very much on a certain end of the spectrum. And I'm just like, dude, whether he agrees with me or not, it's not going to affect me. Because I'm never gonna change his opinion. Because his opinion is based on something that he believes emotionally.

And when emotions start

Andrew Marr

Yeah, but shouldn't there be an opposite view to your view? How could we then be able to gauge what your view is? Absolutely. You know? So and it's not it's understanding.

Like, I can't why would I even wanna change that? Or I couldn't even have this perspective, or we couldn't even talk about this perspective unless there was an opposite viewpoint. You know? It's when we think of, like, oh, we need to change everybody's mind. That's when stuff gets messed up.

Chris Albert

Right. That and I think I think we're almost not able to talk about things with each other anymore. It's because everything has gone to the these emotional these emotional, arguments for for what we believe in. But that's what we resort to.

Andrew Marr

I got a solution, Chris.

Chris Albert

What's that?

Andrew Marr

I got I got a solution for y'all with that. Alright. So we've talked before at length here about, what happens in the fight or flight mode and how we can bring on and live by the hormones by of stress by thought alone. Unique humans are very unique organisms in that we can make so many things happen in our biology just through thought alone. So I I forget where I heard this, but it was like, hey. If you're having problems, you know, emitting an emotional response, try to put yourself in a put on a TV program or something that will will emit that emotional reaction in you. So, like, if you're just, like, deathly afraid of seeing broken bones or something, watch one of those real life discoveries in the ER.

But try to watch it from the objective point of view of I need to I'm going to be a nurse or I'm gonna be in the ER one day, and I need to be able to look at this objectively so I can make the right decision on on how to treat this this injury. And at that point, you've just pulled yourself out of the situation emotionally. Now you can still be very much in it, very much engaged, fully aware, listening to what everybody is saying, being able to give viewpoints and everything else. But now you just remove that emotional aspect of it, and now you're no longer fueled by making these emotional decisions. You're actually able to act for the betterment of a of a situation.

So whatever that is, like, take that situation and find a TV program that admits that same that same reaction. Or if it's the news, like, okay. How can I watch the news? And I'm and I'm I'm setting aside thirty minutes a day to watch news for the sole intent of I want to get to things that should evoke an emotional reaction in me, and I want to be able to zero that out and be able to minimize it and see how I can listen to all viewpoints and then come to different conclusions. But the key takeaway is how can I be in that situation and not be emotionally overrun by it?

And that's a really easy way that you can put yourself in a hypothetical situation, get yourself emotionally amped up or feel those emotions, and, like, okay. Well, how do I need to act now to minimize that? And now, man, you're you're starting to create that new level of being by practicing what you how you do wanna be as opposed to getting in an emotionally charged situation that's gonna make you say something or react to something in a certain way that then is not gonna serve anybody in that conversation.

Chris Albert

Well, I've already inoculated myself a lot to it. I was on the UCSB campus out here, UC Santa Barbara campus for a while. And so, yeah, drum circle going on over here to to to get, I think they were trying to get Dick Cheney off campus, and they were trying to do it with a drum drum circle. It was pretty funny. Because that works.

Yeah. That works. Drum circles always work no matter who who you are.

In fact, if we ever get invaded by a foreign country, just form a drum circle, and and I'm sure they'll leave you alive. But that's, that was one one way. I mean, I've I've been around that element, you know, my whole life. And I'm not again, I'm not saying it's a bad element. It's just one that I don't entirely agree with and has different views on than me on a lot of different issues.

I've got a lot of issues that that I agree with them whole wholeheartedly on. But on certain issues, the ones, you know, that have been been very apparent lately, you know, I disagree with them on. And that's not to say that that I'm a huge fan of, of the president either. I think we gotta give him a chance to do his job, but it's just been such an emotionally charged. And you hear me trying to justify everything I hear because I'm worried that somebody out there is gonna be like, take something I say the wrong way, they're gonna be like, You're free to disagree with me on anything you want.

But you know what I have a really visceral reaction to? And I'm probably not alone on this, but it's like a problem because Shauna knows get me. Shauna is my girlfriend. She works in the hospital. So, she deals with a lot of gross situations.

But anything to do with shit, like people describing it, pictures of it, things like that. If anybody out there is trying to make me vomit on-site, anything to do with crap, like, I get fucking disgusted. And that's the thing, like, I served in The Middle East, there was sewage everywhere. Right? And it wasn't bad.

Like, I wasn't like, I wasn't completely grossed out by that situation. But like for some reason, in our environment out here, anything to do with shit makes me crazy. Shauna started, she was on the phone with one of her friends. This is how I'm getting into this because everybody's probably like, why the hell are you talking about shit? But Shauna's on the phone yesterday, and she's talking to one of her nurse friends.

And they're they're talking about their day at work, and their nurse friends talking about how this this homeless guy came in, and he was shitting all over the place. And she went to clean him up, and and he had maggots coming out where they were trying to clean him up. And then and sorry if that's vulgar. That that is vulgar.

But, I started, like, hacking, like like, almost like coughing, like, my throat up. Shana's sitting there laughing. And everybody like, that'll happen at parties. That's like a party trick she does where if she wants me to get ghosted out, she'll start doing it. And I'm just like, woah.

Woah.

Andrew Marr

That'll that'll do it, man.

Chris Albert

Yeah. Yeah. But maybe I'm just vaporizing a little bit too much over here.

Andrew Marr

I mean, I think that's probably a natural evolutionary basic instinct that said we need to get away from other people's fecal matter because that's going to make me sick in the end. So there's probably something like that if they're going at the ground level.

Chris Albert

So that map makes me think, where's the evolutionary impulse for people who are fecal philiacs, like who love it, who are like, Oh my God, I need to rub that all over my face, or something like that. Where does that come in evolutionarily?

Andrew Marr

I know if there's an evolutionary process where that became productive for the society to to advance. I think that's some kind of something happened in that individual's background that made him choose one way or one line of thinking over another and, you know, that that taboo that taboo lifestyle, you know, got manifested, but I I'm not the I'm not the best person to probably speak on that.

Chris Albert

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Alright. We'll get off that.

So what else Where do think where do you think it comes from?

Andrew Marr

Where do we're

Chris Albert

You know what? Part of me is like, alright.

Andrew Marr

So And I think we got this inane sick desire to rub ourselves in shit. So I I think that that's some kind of some kind of weird cultural taboo who knows what experience where that person felt they needed to go in that direction for some reason, and now it became on as a full fledged, you know

Chris Albert

Yeah. Maybe it's mother nature saying idea.

Andrew Marr

I don't know.

Chris Albert

Maybe it's mother nature saying maybe mother nature in all her reality or all its reality wants to really get rid of us. Right? And so every once in a while, it creates these things where it's like, alright. I'm gonna try and wipe them out with by putting serial killers on Earth. And then and then that doesn't work.

So she's like, shit. Alright. I'm gonna try this plague thing. Let's see that. And then, fuck.

They're too smart. They figured out how to cure it. And then maybe she's like, alright. Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put a certain amount of them down there who like to eat their own shit.

Maybe it'll spread as a trend, and then they'll all die from bacterial infection. And so they don't that doesn't work. And so then she's like, alright. Fuck. So what I'm gonna try and do is I'm gonna systematically reduce.

I'm gonna put things out there and we give them knowledge so that they're systematically reducing their testosterone levels and they're not gonna be able to breed anymore because there's not gonna be any any real frigging people to breed with. And then that that's good. So maybe she's playing experiments like that. You know? That's just something I'm coming up with right now.

Andrew Marr

And doesn't seem to be a very profitable system, Chris. But, I mean, I guess.

Chris Albert

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I won't be able to write any books about that. No no no 700 theory of how people started eating shit for me.

Andrew Marr

So Well, I mean, there might have a whole community out there that's interested in that.

Chris Albert

Yeah. Totally. Totally. Totally. So what's going on?

What else is going on with you, man? How how's everything out there?

Andrew Marr

Everything's going good. We're getting geared up for the move. The Marr family is setting out to California here. The our house in Texas is going on the market here in March, and we hope to be out there, just as soon as we get it sold. But life is good, my man.

Chris Albert

Awesome. Awesome. I'm gearing up for people think Southern California is just awesome with the weather, which it is. I love it. But I'm gearing up waiting for that warm weather to come back here.

It's been raining. I think it's rained every day, but, like, ten days out here since, the last, like, two months. I've we've been getting my patio is overgrown with algae. I'm like, I gotta go out there with some some bleach and and, and scrub the thing. But here I am talking about my patio with my bleach.

We go from consciousness to to algae growing on my patio to to the weather and things like that.

Andrew Marr

But And that's where we wrap it. But Yeah, dude. We should we'll do this again soon and next time with one of one of the incredible soon to be guests.

Chris Albert

Yes. Yes. Absolutely. And we'll get back to you next week with some awesome stuff, and I will talk to you guys all soon. Later.

Peace out.

Chris Albert

Host of the Warrior Soul Podcast and founder of Warrior Soul. Worldwide trainer and nutrition coach, contributing author at Testosterone Nation and Muscle and Strength.

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