Joe, Bert, Ari, & Tom Set the Sober October 2019 Challenge

Um, wait, so what are we settling on for this month? What are we doing? Heroin. Heroin? Is that what we're doing? Heroin. Everybody, first time. I'm in. What are we doing? Well, what we decided over the phone is, one edition is we have to read 500 pages. And by read 500 pages, I think we need read. We don't mean audiobook. Read. Correct? We're doing 10 classes. No. We're doing the reading too. That's great. We should. Yeah, the reading too. Yeah, we need to read more. So, 10 classes of something. It can be hot yoga. It could be jujitsu. It can be spin, hot spin. Some classes. Some hip hop dance. Hip hop dance. Hip hop dance. Whatever. By the way, how great would a hip hop dance been now that you saw the video? We should have done that. That was a great video. That was a great video. I knew what you were going to do. You were going to take your clothes off. That hip hop dance video was great though. I also danced. Yeah. The dancing was okay. It made me cry. It was so good. I'm so shocked that people thought the dancing was good. I was so angry. I got so upset. Why were you upset? That people complimented him. It was great. It was not good. It was great. America's Got Talent reached out to me. Jesus Christ. Don't take anybody bro. Dago, do you consider yourself more of a comedian or a dancer? I was like, do you not have a Google search engine on your? I didn't want to bother with that. They're monsters. Would they reach out on Facebook? They emailed me on my website. They probably have a million hyenas out there rummaging the nation trying to find people with any kind of talent so they can keep that monster alive. Yeah. Wait. The other thing is we didn't we agree that within these classes they don't necessarily have to be a physical strain. It's like a class of anything that's some class that's new. Like better yourself. Tom and I were talking about taking tactical gun lessons. That'd be great. So that but I'm saying that's not a workout, but it's still like a class and fun class. So we better off with it than without sword fighting. This year it's more about bettering ourselves. One of the things that I think we agreed to and your wife actually reached out to me about there apparently her and Leanne are going to get together and do like a podcast. They're doing a podcast called So Over October. So over October. Remember the month. Yeah, because last year was insane. Look, I gave your wife good ammunition for the first episode. And the wives fucking hated it. Mine did not. Well she didn't like seeing that part of me either. Yeah. She didn't like it. Mine too. She was like your body looks better, but fucking so boring. Yeah. Well, it's shit. Leanne was livid when she found out that I got roof roofied because of So Over October. Yeah. She was. She was so she'll never speak to Ari again. Justifiably what? Me? Yeah. Me? Yeah. Ari you're the one. She'll never speak to Ari again. No. It's so bad. And that's what sucked is I had to take care of both of them. Yeah. Like I had to take care of Ari and take care of Leanne. Well, I think she's great. Whoa. She doesn't like you bro. I think she's great. She's been a great mom to her kids with kids. That's cool. I like how you look at things. Fucking wonderful. You see the bright side of things even when people hate you. She's awesome. Always had your back. I think she's great. I think she's great. And her temporary anger at me is not going to make me stop liking her so much. Oh, that's so good. Wait, wait. Before I forget. Yeah. When you're in classes, you can't do more than how many of one class? Three, right? Three, yeah. So you can do one class three times. So you can technically do three classes three times. But why does that matter? So you can mix it up a little bit. You don't just do one thing over and over again. You don't just do spin class every day and be done with it. As long as you can do something. I mean, but like if you're doing jiu-jitsu, like say if you decide to do jiu-jitsu, you learn it. There's nothing wrong with doing six of them. Like that's how you get better. Or because if you do decide to do it and you get into it, you're going to have to do more than one a week. Too easy to do the same shit and not challenge yourself. So it's you. Yeah. Interesting how you're just making the rules up. Well, it seems too easy to like not challenge yourself. What do you think about that? Does that make sense to you? To only be able to do three at the same time? It feels like it's against our will, kind of like he's slipping a drug to us, doesn't it? A little bit. A little bit. I think that if we, I think there should be one other element to it. Is that you, because there's always been like this physical element to the whole month, you should do something on your own that you don't talk about till it's over, that you're doing to challenge yourself. Like the crucible and it too. Like you, and it's not a, yeah. Like you, for instance. Wait, I'm not following. Like for instance, you like, you like to run the hills, right? Yeah. So let's say, let's just say you go, I run it once a week. I run it every Sunday or something. So for the month you challenge yourself on your own to do it twice a week. And at November 1st, you're like, I took these classes, I read these books and I ran my hills twice a week. Or like, you know, you go, I want to, you know, I do a hundred pushups a day, whatever you want to do it. That way there's a, that way there's like some other physical element of, you know, wellness throughout the month. Okay. Some of you challenge yourself to. Yeah. That I'm like, I think I can do this. So we're coming back with a report card. Basically, yeah. Kind of like Lent, where you give up something, they do decide. That's right. So you essentially have four things to do if you can only do three, no more than three of each one. So there has to be four individual things you're doing. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, four things, four things total, right? Cause you could do yoga, you could do spin, you could do jiu jitsu, you could do kickboxing, you could do whatever. Crossfit. Yeah. Crossfit. So you got to do four separate things. Tactical. We do that tactical gun training. Yeah. I have a gun and I haven't even put bullets on it. What? Really? That's one. Don't say that now. Say I'm a fucking awesome shot. I just want to really get my address is. Yeah. Yeah. I like this. I like the idea of mixing it up and I also like the idea that we're not going to go crazy. This is like something. See, the thing about last year is like you killed all of us open ended. Yeah. I mean, I had 1100 points one day when you do an 80% of your max heart rate for a minute, you get one point. I had 1100 points. That was a nuts day. 1100. You finished at 11,000. It's that John Wick fucking bath house scene. I watched that scene 50 times in a row and I just wanted to kill everybody. Go crazy, yeah. I wouldn't stop. No, no. I know, but I also felt like I was. Yeah. Mentally and physically breaking down throughout the month. Yeah, but I also was getting really into it. Yeah. That's the thing. It actually, it feels like you feel the soreness, you would feel drained, but you would feel the cloud in your mind clear. Yeah. Because you and I talked about the chatter. Yeah. Internal chatter gone. Stress is stress is like, really? Yeah. I didn't have nothing really. Cause you were working out. Nothing bothered me. Dude, it worked out like three hours. I remember saying to my wife, I remember saying to my wife, you could get this in a pill, what this is, this feeling of not giving a fuck, like really not giving a fuck. Cause generally I don't give a fuck about things, but man, when I'm doing cardio for five hours a day, you don't give a fuck. You really don't give a fuck. You don't get bothered by things. By anything. And the stresses of life just really start to be. I didn't lose any weight though. Yeah. You don't have any weight to lose. But I was, I thought I was going to get a MOBs. I thought I was going to get at least some weight loss because of it. I didn't lose a fucking pound. I lost a lot. But what's your body fat? It's going to be like what, 7%? It's probably around 10. Somewhere around 10. That's just cutting water to then that's how you get ripped. I was drinking all the water, but I was eating everything too. But I think I might've even gained a pound or two. I thought I was not going to. I was watching what I ate as the month started. And then when I saw how competitive it was going and how crazy it started to be, like six and seven days of working out, it was anything in sight. And I was never full. Never. I was eating boxes of cookies. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. In between workouts. I kept eating. I ate a giant box of vanilla wafers, ate the whole box, just shoved them down my fat hole, drank soda, like regular soda, which I never drink. I always drink Diet Coke. My November was back because I was eating like that but still working out and then I just kept eating like that and stopped working out. That's what happened to me. Yeah, you got shredded for a while, dude. They told me at the gym. Yeah, I love that body for a little bit. Not worth the time. You had the nice little V. You had the dick root showing. They told me they're like every time somebody blows out because we had, remember they had the point thing at my gym. They're like every time everyone, like the next month, there's such a dip. And then they're like, and then you broke that record for like the highest total and then the biggest dip ever. That was like, fuck this. That was so over it in November, dude. How long did you guys keep using the My Zones thing? I put a once just to see what it was. Yeah. And it fucking brought back like anxiety. Oh yeah. Yeah, it makes you anxious. I used it for a while and then I would not use it. Then I would take it again. And then recently I lost it and they were like, oh, you know, find it. I don't want to find it. Yeah. Like I don't want to. And then I did find it and I was like, I'm not putting it on. I found mine when I moved and it was like, don't touch it. You touch it, throw it away. Yeah. It's like a fucking like the thing they found the exorcist when they brought it back home. This is more of a report though. Yeah. You know, it's different. This has given you heart rate variability. Analysis. It's also telling you how much you've recovered, which I think is very important. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.