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but we're still working on that. That's fine. Great. Um.
Today, I actually do have like a really interesting story I've been telling you
guys. I've been taking a lion's main mushroom, which is a non psychedelic
type of mushroom. The whole idea of this natural mushroom, wild growing mushroom
is that it helps with your focus, it helps with memory retention, it
helps with your body inflammation, it helps with just about everything in your body.
And it's it's been fantastic for me, and I've seen massive gains in
myself just in just in the short time that I've been taking it. It's
been something special for me, and I preach it to everybody from the mountaintops
every single time, every single time, like I get the opportunity I'm talking
about these lines Maine mushrooms and how quickly I feel like they've kind of changed
my life a little bit. But they One of the things that has been
interesting with this lins Maine is the memories that I do have that I haven't
thought about for a long time, or probably would have never thought about ever
again until I started taking these mushrooms. And I get thrown into these memories
all of a sudden, like very vividly. But they're usually triggered by some
sort of sense, usually like smell or taste, usually that I've noticed recently,
And today I had that. So I'd gotten up this morning and I
was like, all right, like I'm up, like I'm doing my thing,
and I decided to go to the gas station and get a Red Bull
and my donuts. Like I usually like to have those, maybe like maybe
once a week or so. They're just kind of my favorite thing. So
I just go and get them. Don't judge me, it's fine. But
I went to the gas station and walked in there and grabbed my Red Bull,
decided on my flavor today. I just went with original. Usually I
kind of bounced around into different flavors, but today I was like, you
know, I'm just gonna get the original, Like I'm not. Let's not
fool around, let's not think about this for too long. Just the og
today and then we'll go from there. So I grabbed my original Red Bull,
grabbed it out of the fridge, and I walked over to the donuts.
Was like, yah, maybe it's a glazed day. Maybe it's a
powder day. Maybe it's maybe it's a chocolate maybe it's a double chocolate day.
I don't know, Like we'll see when we get over there. I'm
looking at the donuts and just to the left of the donuts is something that
I haven't had in years, really since I was a child. And you've
got these little things. They're they're like a mini cow zone is like the
shape of them. They come in a little box and they are the only
flavors that I know that they have is apple and cherry. They're little pies,
but they're like a tiny shaped cow zone and they are fantastic. And
I used to have those all the time when I was growing up. I
used to have them a lot with my dad when we used to go to
construction sites, Like that was a thing we'd get up. We'd go to
the construction sites. My dad had his own construction business where he did like
homebuilding for a lot of years, and so we'd go to the gas station,
we'd get those little apple pies or the cherry pies, whatever we were
feeling that day, and then we'd go off to the construction site. So
that those things are always like, oh, that's really cool, Like I
haven't had one in a year, And that's the only thought I had,
was like, oh, look like I haven't had one of these in a
long time. And so I'm sitting there staring at the donuts, and I
went like I should have one of those, like I kind of like I
kind of want would, So I grabbed I usually go for the apple.
I usually go for the apple, but today I went with the cherry,
grabbed the cherry, did my thing, paid walked out, sat in my
car, was like great, getting gas whatever. I opened up that little
cherry pie and I bit into it, and I was thrust into one of
the funniest memories I have of being on like being with my dad on a
construction site. I mean, there's plenty, and if they're listening to this,
they probably know like so many and there's very specific ones about me learning
about what carpet tack is or tax I learned that one kind of the hard
way. I can get into that another day. But this is just kind
of like a nothing story. They would have never known this was happening until
I'm about to tell the story. So when I am at a construction site,
I've got my little I got my little tool pouch on. I'm feeling
off some I got my probably my little boots on because I'm on a construction
site. I want to hurt my feet and stuff. You know, you
get safety first gloves on that are too big for my little fingers. Because
I couldn't be more than five years old. Once I started going to school.
I went to construction sites a little bit less or I just had to
go on the weekends kind of thing with my dad. But this one I
was I was little, little, little one of the things. And my
dad will one d agree with this statement. Is like I always struggled and
I still I still on occasion struggle with the names of different tools, Like
I don't know why I get them all mixed up in my head with wrenches
and different different things, like like I can't even explain it to you,
Like I don't know why. I get so flustered when they're like, oh,
just like get this tool, I freak out, Like my brain goes,
I don't know what this is. So like basically that's kind of what
happened. So somewhere between my four to maybe six year old brain on this
construction site, my dad goes, Okay, I need you to do this,
and I was kind of like that was my job on sites, right,
Like I'm a tool runner, Like I hand him the nail gun,
I hand him the whatever, I you know, sweep up to make sure
like the site's clean and stuff like that. I clean the tools, you
know, clean paint brushes, things like that. So the job can keep
moving, so I feel productive. I'm not doing anything, but I am
doing something that's little things add up for you know me, that's little as
well, So that's fine, but big job. Okay. So I need
to go out to the truck. We had this, my dad had this.
I would not I wouldn't say we, Yeah, we had this cool
truck. My dad had this truck and it was loaded full of tools.
It was like rack the whole thing, shelves pristine, right, So you
go out. He's like, I need you to go out there. I
thought I had it in my pouch or my tool belt. I do not
have it. It's in the truck. I need you to go and grab
a wrench and a phillips and a flathead. I said, okay, And
so I should have asked for more explanation. I did not, of course,
because I'm again somewhere between you know, four and six, and so
I'm going out there. I'm I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it.
I didn't need my dad's help. I remember walking up, walking up
the set of stairs, going out to the truck, and I opened up
the backdoor, so I had to climb up there. It's pretty big step
for me. I had to climb up there, open the door, and
I'm standing there in the back, and all of a sudden, I just
got so overwhelmed because I didn't realize that I didn't know the name of any
of these tools. Again, I was still super small and I was still
learning, but that was a big task for me. And that's fine.
But I realized as soon as I got in there, I'm staring at this
giant truck comparatively to my tiny, low body, and I'm realizing, I
don't know the names of any of these tools. So I'm I'm trying to
think of this. And I got the I got a wrench and I figured
that out. I got the one that he was talking about. I figured
that one out pretty quickly, and I was fine. FEW got it.
And now I remember my dad said something about Philip, and then I said,
I remember standing in there and saying, I don't know who Philip is,
Like, who's Philip? And then I'm I'm looking around in the back
of this van. This is so silly, Like I'm looking around, who's
Philip. I'd never heard him say anything about Philip, and so I'm I'm
like nah, that was weird. Did he say something about who's Philip?
Is there a third guy here with us? And I walk out. I
jumped back out of the van and I walked a lap around the van looking
for Philip, and I was so confused and I was like, I don't,
I don't know. I'm looking around the house. The house was still
being built. I did an entire lap around the house looking for Philip and
walked back in the back in the van and was like, I don't know,
Like maybe he'll he'll just have to like help me with that, that's
fine, whatever, And so I ended up grabbing a flathead and that was
fine. There were very specific flatheads that he likes to use. So like
I was like, okay, I know, I know these two are I
have the wrench and I have a flathead. Don't know who Philip is?
Great, So I walked back down and head of these and I was like,
I don't And I said, I don't know who Philip is and he
said, no, like a Phillips, like a Phillips, like a Philip
screwdriver, and I like, I didn't know what it was. And that
was one of my first times that he had to explain to me what a
Phillips screwsdriver was. But even then, for years I felt like I couldn't
remember what a Phillips, like what a Phillip's head screwdriver was, and I
would always, for whatever silly reason, always get him mixed up with a
or I would get them mixed up like a Phillips with a flathead. And
so I would just whenever he was like, I need a screwdriver, whatever
screwdriver, I would just grab a bunch of I would just grab a bunch
of screwdrivers and hopefully this was one that you were looking for. I don't
know what it's all means. And I just thought that was like a really
funny or really funny memory, like who's Philip? Like I don't know who
Philip is, but I'll never forget, like the look that he had on
his face, like who's Philip? Like we were both wondering who Philip was.
Neither of us clearly figured it out, but I was fine. But
I would have never had that memory until I bit into that that cherry pie
that I that I haven't had in years since I was a child. So
again, I'm a huge proponent of using those lions, main mushrooms. Um,
especially if you want to have like funny memories like that. All my
memories have been like pretty funny or just like random random moments where I'm like,
oh, that was very random for me to think of. But I'm
glad I thought of that for whatever reason, like the pieces a bunch of
things together or something like that years and years later or whatever. But I
thought that was a pretty funny story. I don't know, I don't know.
Let me look at the question today. That was a long story.
Let me get to the question today. In my five year question today,
memory journal today, is the most interesting fact that you have heard today?
That is the question of the day. What interesting fact? Was the most
interesting fact that? Oh my gosh, you know, let me start over.
Let me start over. The question says, most interesting fact you have
heard recently. That is a question. Okay, So I tried to be
clever and change it up a little bit. There's no reason for me to
just read the thing, Dominic, just read the thing. It's fine,
most interesting act you have heard recently. I don't know. Um, let
me think, Oh, I do know, I do know. I have
this weird love hate relationship with dinosaurs. I've done prior episodes about them.
I could talk about dinosaurs for hours. I have a healthy love hate relationship
with them because I'm completely fascinated by something that is walking around eating trees and
stuff that is the size of a telephone pole. I'm fascinated by that.
And I don't know how you could be looking like if you're anywhere near like
a telephone pole, like, go go out, look at it. Go
go out and stand next to a telephone pole, and then understand there used
to be things walking around that were that big and we have this skeletons to
prove it. And if that's not like mind blowing, and I don't even
in slightly terrifying. At the same time, I don't know, like I
don't know, I have no idea what to tell you at that point.
Are you even alive? Hello? Is anybody home? It's crazy. And
then you get other ones that are like other other dinosaurs that are like as
big as a school bus or a semitruck. It's like, oh my god,
look at the teeth on those kind of things. What kind of teeth
would you have to have to be that big? Oh my god, frightening
anyway, Okay, I'm not going off on dinosaurs. I'm not going off.
You almost got me there, you almost got me going on dinosaurs.
But I get very excited. I'm very passionate about them. But the thing
that I always love talking about is, you know, everybody talks about,
well, the meteors came and then dinosaurs are extinct, and I always like
to remind no, they're not. They're still here. We still have them.
They come in just various different forms. Now they just look a little
different, or maybe they're not very different, but they're still here. Two
of my favorite ones are Kimona dragons, and they are terrifying, absolutely terrifying
animals. But boy are they kind of cool at the same time. Their
spit is poisonous, just like this liver in their mouth will kill you.
Like you'll have to cut your arm off. Just touching it, not letting
nothing else, you'll lose your arm. Touch it, arms gone by,
Okay, done. That's a cool animal. That's a cool animal. I
don't care what anybody says. They can run super fast. They never do,
but they can because they know their spit's gonna kill you. Maybe you
just barely touch it, You're done. Crazy, But the next one on
top of, on top of, on top of a mirria ad of other
dinosaurs that are still on the earth, including ostrichige, ostrich ostriches, ostriches
ostriches. Oh my gosh, is that what those times where you get like
tongue tied on a word and you like start hearing it and you're like,
that sounds like a weird word. That's what I just did. But the
animal that I'm most fascinated with is the alligator or the crocodile specifically for this
story, let's talk We'll talk about crocodiles because those things are I think the
most intelligent creature ever created. They've never changed in the millions of years since
their inception whatever that was. They've never changed. They've never done anything.
They their appearance never has changed. The state or their appearance has never changed.
Their attributes have never changed, their tempers have never changed, their skill
sets have never changed. They are what they are, and they are a
perfected creation to me, Like they are literally one of the only things on
the earth where I'm like, this is a perfect creation, whatever that means
to you, And I think they are absolutely fascinating creatures. There's something like
something about them you just have to like, you just have to respect them.
Like something so big that hasn't changed over millions of years has also the
ability to basically put it in sleep itself in sleep mode like you would with
your computer. Like that's crazy. But they're like fully alert and it's it's
insane, Like they can serve so much energy being able to do that,
which extends their life, which is nuts. They can freeze themselves in winter
and freeze themselves in water and basically go on like they're like hibernating kind of
thing. But it's like super I don't know. They're fascinating creatures. They
most of them only eat once a year. Did you know that? Usually
only once a year? Maybe maybe once a year, which is crazy for
something so big. But the fact that I just learned recently about them is
that we as humans have actually no idea how long a crocodile can exist or
how long their lifespan is. We have general guesses, But did you know
that all all crocodiles, they don't die of age, they die of starvation
because they never actually stopped growing. Do you hear it? I said,
let me start over, So, as humans We don't know how long a
crocodile exists for just a natural lifespan, okay, and all of human history.
We have no idea. But we do know the only way that they
die is via starvation because they don't stop growing, and as soon as they
grow too big, they'll starve to death because there's not enough food to support
their size. Isn't that crazy? I think it's crazy. So, like,
I'm actually really curious how big something like that could get, or do
we want to test that? I don't think we do. I don't think.
It feels like a bad idea. That feels like the beginning of a
sci fi movie, every sci fi movie, honestly, So let's not do
that. But I think that is an absolutely fascinating thing about dinosaurs or the
dinosaur. The crocodile is the lifespan thing, and they only die of starvation
that we know of, I mean, obviously besides being killed, but other
not like actual natural call. You get what I'm saying, You get it,
you get it. But great, That's all I've got for today.
That was a fantastic episode. At least for me, I felt like it
was good. I don't know how you felt. I think you're still here,
so that's good. But thank you guys so much for listening. Thank
you for liking and sharing and subscribing and messaging me and let me know that
you guys are enjoying the thing that I'm doing. It really does mean a
lot. I've been enjoying always these episodes and going through this book with you
guys. But until next time, I'll see you guys. Okay, bye,