Episode 201. Maccas Manipulation, Fitness Hacks and the Power of Discomfort

Welcome to another episode of the In-situ Collective podcast! This week on the show, we are wrapping up the month with our favourite discoveries, teachable moments and ideas we want to share with you.

In this episode, we dive deep into the power of stepping out of your comfort zone and how embracing discomfort can lead to personal growth and success. We'll uncover the hidden psychology behind McDonald’s kiosks and how they manipulate your food choices, making you order more than you planned. Then, we break down the truth about refined carbs and their sneaky role in increasing your cravings. We also discuss how you can maximize your fitness goals by focusing on Saturday and Sunday training.

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 6:00 Practicing as a therapist requires self-reflection.
• 8:30 How to overcome discomfort and overwhelm in the gym.
• 13:00 Starting training week on weekends.
• 15:00 Working out on weekends improves results by creating solid habits.
• 20:00 Avoid heavily processed refined carbs to prevent energy crashes and cravings.
• 24:30 McDonald's kiosk manipulation for food addiction.
• 32:00 Is the Olympics dying in popularity?

Transcript

what is up everybody welcome back to the
 In-stitu Collective podcast on today's
 show we're wrapping up the last month
 with interesting facts teachable moments
 news fun
 things that are going to help you live a
 long healthy happy exciting entertaining
 life oh my God I don't know that we can
 live up to all of those things that you
 just promised every month trying to add
 a few extras in there the list is
 getting long uh big month of podcasts if
 you haven't done go back and listen to
 the last couple of episodes been some
 epic episodes starting with 199 we had
 Nathan come on the episode and it was a
 really good episode I really enjoyed
 that one and and a lot of you guys did
 as well so big thanks to reaching out
 and letting us know that you enjoyed it
 because Nathan is a somewhat newbie to
 the gym
 and it's good to have that mindset
 around the Pod uh I feel like sometimes
 we can just sort of get too disconnected
 with people trying to start out not
 understanding the mindsets fear
 knowledge barriers of newbie starting
 out so it was good it's good to get him
 on there uh and just go basically
 through his routine and how we could tie
 it up and get him moving and going in
 the right direction to achieve his goals
 which I thought was good
 and
 then I was going to say if you want to
 follow if you didn't go back and listen
 to that episode Nathan is following a
 program written by me mac follows it and
 a bunch of you guys are following it now
 if you want to jump on that make sure
 you become a supporter of the show uh
 you can just hit the support link and
 you can give us whatever you feel like
 this this podcast program is going to be
 worth whether it's $3 or $3,000 a month
 uh you just enter that and then I see
 that pop up I'll add you to the program
 and you can smash it out with this as
 well um it's cool because like you'll be
 in the app with us so you can see
 everyone that's doing the program that
 gets PRS and like we post stuff in the
 feed in there and like you can fist bump
 each other when people get PE it's nice
 it's just a nice little place to be that
 isn't social media to have a community
 right yeah it's more based around
 everybody just getting exercise done
 yeah so it's yeah it's pretty cool when
 you know you actually hit a PR and you
 get a couple of fist bumps from
 everybody in there and you probably
 don't even know any of them so we've got
 a couple of people all around the world
 now on this which is even better so not
 just Australian so it's cool keep
 smashing it out couple of fitness
 challenges every now and then pop up on
 there as well so if you do join in make
 sure you give them a crack again it's
 all about you and your fitness journey
 not necessarily judging your scores and
 everybody else it's just a bit of fun
 yeah trying something different
 then we had episode
 200 with Sam uh from melow so if you've
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 say even for the podcast uh that episode
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 his backstory was even better yeah uh it
 was so cool just sitting there listening
 him talk about it um and once you listen
 to the 200th episode orican you're going
 to want to get couple of cans as well so
 big thanks to Sam for coming on and
 sharing his story as well um next Inu
 event maybe we can do a belated 200
 episode event in the the future in a new
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 maybe throw event there if we can time
 it right we can have Mellows there for
 everybody to try yeah which would be
 cool it would be
 awesome um so that about us us that's
 all the news I think so it's pretty
 crazy that we've done 200 episodes this
 is 2011 I don't know why it's so
 satisfying to me that it's like we just
 closed the book for 200 and now we're
 starting the next chapter not
 necessarily like we're changing anything
 but it kind of feels fresh feels
 different maybe because we had some
 guests so I feel like we got arrest from
 talking because sometimes I get tired of
 talking and I feel like I have nothing
 interesting to tell you guys so it feels
 I feel I feel ready today to share
 um yeah what has it been like 4 years
 then if this is at 2011 like one a week
 for 52 weeks a year but then again we
 were doing three episodes a week at one
 point two episodes a week at one point
 you deleted a bunch trying to think when
 we started late 2021 yeah it was
 definitely during Co cuz we're like what
 else we might as well everyone else is
 doing it yeah not many people doing it
 still though um yeah I did go back and
 delete a bunch they were absolutely
 terrible yeah uh don't there's still a
 few up there but it's not even worth
 your time trying to go back and find it
 then they're not that interesting it's
 just very bad us trying to get our feet
 me trying to learn how to
 speak like just in general I think we
 both yeah I was just as bad so yeah it's
 good to see that we've actually improved
 on that as well anyway so new chapter
 starting today I wanted to talk about
 something that happened to me in uni
 this week so I'm back I'm back at school
 everybody will know that I'm very happy
 about that because I get
 so describe me when I'm not at Uni lost
 like a sad little puppy
 dog I don't know but I think that
 scenario that I experienced this week
 directly relates to the reason we wanted
 to have Nathan on the podcast which is
 being out of touch with the client
 experience so in one of my classes
 called counseling and virtual care we
 had to do we do it all the time actually
 it's only the third week and we've done
 it every week um mock counseling
 sessions because obviously you can't
 just learn to be a therapist and
 immediately go and start therapizing
 people right so we practice and the past
 week we had a therapist a client and an
 observer so there's three of us in
 groups and we had to just like run
 through a scenario just pretend to be
 the client and my classmate pretended to
 be the therapist for me and then at the
 end we rejoined as a group and discussed
 what we learned what felt good what felt
 bad and to be honest I liked being the
 therapist that was cool I feel like I'm
 pretty good at body language and active
 listening which is mostly what therapy
 is to a certain extent being The
 Observer was a little hard because I did
 want I was actively listening like I was
 like mhm from the side and I have to not
 do that as the Observer because like in
 in future years like I will observe
 others and others will observe me in
 professional practice always to make
 sure that you have like Good Conduct
 right um and then me as the client
 absolutely terrifyingly horrific I hated
 it it was so hard for me to talk about
 myself and not try not to be the
 professional I don't know if it's cuz I
 do a lot of coaching and we do a lot of
 talking on here and generally in my
 day-to-day life I Am The Listener I
 think like like to ask people questions
 and listen so it was really hard for me
 to be the client and then when we went
 back to the
 class and the teacher was like what was
 hard and I was like I really struggled
 to be the client because I didn't want
 to share I felt uncomfortable I didn't
 know what to do with my body my eyes my
 hands like was my tone of voice right or
 wrong to be a client and she's like that
 is an excellent experience because this
 is going to remind you how your clients
 are going to feel when they come to
 therapy and I was like
 wow that's so true because even now I
 feel like when I talk to people about
 nutrition it's so second nature to me
 that maybe I speak too quickly and I go
 over the information too quickly and
 it's like the changes aren't that bad
 like you don't have to change that much
 it's going to be fine when maybe I
 should have more empathy slow down a
 little and just remember that this is
 probably information overload and they
 feel rather uncomfortable yeah and same
 with going to the gym for the first time
 right like not only do you have to learn
 a bunch of new exercises you also have
 to learn how to be mentally aware of
 your body you have to navigate a
 probably a new environment new people
 equipment like where do I put my bag
 where do I get water like what do I do
 in between sets there's so many things
 that Jack and I probably forget about
 that is so normal for us now that as a
 newbie terrifying
 yeah and I definitely forget that and
 that's why it's good having Nathan it
 probably be good to get Nathan in the
 gym as well so one of the things I want
 to do with Nathan coming on obviously we
 went through his day-to-day thing his
 day-to-day routines and trying to
 improve that get him back on three in
 three months and then see what he's
 learned what he's changed you know where
 like where he's at because it does take
 about 3 months to sort of get some sort
 of change happening within your habits
 and your body uh but also in the gym
 because you know like he's following the
 program he's going to have questions on
 exercises that I'm just like
 well I just I I don't even have to think
 about it my body does it yeah and I I
 remember I was working out with somebody
 could have been Julian a long time ago
 and we're doing bench press and he's
 going to correct my form uh and like
 after the set was finished he's like oh
 you did one or two reps but then you
 just automatically corrected your form
 and I didn't say anything and you just
 kept going and I'm like I didn't even
 know like I didn't even know what he's
 talking about I just did it so it's just
 things like that that yeah again I'll
 Overlook even people coming into the gym
 for the first time like I'm just like
 yeah whatever just Cru is better it's
 like well hold on it's their first time
 they're probably feeling nervous so
 maybe I'll walk with them and just do
 one exercise with them to get them
 moving or something like that um so yeah
 it's it's very it's hard to become a
 newbie so it's cool to experience
 something like that yeah um now that
 you've done that at Uni do you think
 there's anything people out there that
 could sort of try and like what's
 something that they could do relatable
 to be newbie and see how it feels Oh you
 mean to put themsel in the new in the in
 a new position yeah that's really it
 depends how uncomfortable you want the
 position to be like if you want to just
 dabble a little bit and try
 like being
 uncomfortable I would say just go to a
 coffee shop that isn't familiar because
 that's also where do I stand in line
 like where do I stand to wait for my
 order like there's lots of little
 uncertain things um like walk a
 different route if you walk to work or
 school because it's you don't know how
 long it's going to take you you don't
 know what you're going to walk past you
 don't know like the streets potentially
 that you have to take just there's lots
 of like tiny little things that you
 could do to slowly expose yourself as
 for more intense
 things like I would say trying something
 that is completely out of your
 wheelhouse so like if you go to the gym
 often maybe try going to a yoga class
 lots of different variables if you are
 comfortable in the gym and everything
 maybe try going to like something
 creative I feel like I lack creative
 situations so if I was to go to like a
 painting class or or a pottery class or
 something that would be so uncomfortable
 for me but being uncomfortable isn't bad
 right it's just you're learning
 something new just go to anything that
 you don't know how to do yeah and try to
 do that because the more you're
 uncomfortable the more you become
 comfortable being uncomfortable does
 that make sense it's just like training
 in the gym the more you do it the better
 you get at it and then new circumstances
 that are uncomfortable easier yeah
 definitely I think moving to the city
 for US helped me with that IM ly and
 probably moving into this building
 because they do host like weekly events
 and I usually only go to the monthly
 wand because I'm comfortable going to
 those ones but I could go to the other
 ones like that um make me feel a little
 bit more uncertain to put me out of my
 comfort zone um and we have that
 opportunity every week in our building
 which is cool but you just have to look
 because I have no doubt that you have
 chosen a very comfortable path for every
 single day of your life because that's
 just what we do naturally M but yeah
 very interesting yeah the next thing
 that I wanted to talk about was starting
 my training week on a Saturday I think
 or a Sunday I'm not sure so obviously
 being back at Uni my I have a schedule
 now I mean I always have a schedule
 mentally but I have a schedule that's
 out of my control which is I get very
 used to just Dilly dallying around and
 going to the gym when I want for as long
 as I want every day um and anyone that
 knows me knows that skipping a day in
 the gym hurts my soul even if I'm not
 training like intensely I just like the
 act of going to the gym now so I'm at
 Uni Monday Wednesdays and Fridays for
 pretty much the whole day and they are
 usually our big training days like the
 bigger
 workouts so I have decided to start my
 training week on a Saturday so I do
 Monday's Big Workout on a Saturday and
 then the Tuesday workout on a Sunday
 mhm and then Monday I'll probably I
 probably won't be able to go to the gym
 and then I can do the next Big Workout
 which would be Wednesday's workout on
 Tuesday when I'm home Etc because the
 start of the week the program is more
 intense and my schedule is more intense
 so I'm just going
 to start on the days where I don't have
 a schedule Saturday Sunday so I'm going
 to start the program on Saturday Sunday
 when the world is my oyster pretty much
 um and I don't know why I haven't
 thought about it or why we haven't
 suggested it before because for most
 people Mondays who want who the heck
 wants to have had a weekend off and then
 have to pack your lunch go to the gym
 probably do the groceries go to work for
 8 hours it seems very unrealistic to me
 to do that but we all do that exact
 thing I I think we have spoken about
 this on the podcast a long time ago mhm
 so if anybody has gone back and listened
 to all those old episodes and it comes
 up let us know but I think it's a great
 idea out of all my clients the ones that
 work out on a weekend get better results
 like hands down it's
 just C and we talk about this all the
 time creating new habits to achieve a
 goal is what you need to do and working
 out on the weekends is the best way to
 do it because you have to sacrifice
 other things to achieve those goals to
 to go to the gym so you can't overdo it
 on a Friday or Saturday night so true
 didn't even think about that but you
 can't go out and get pissed and just
 stay out until 3:00 because You' got to
 work out the next day so you know you
 can still go out and have fun but you
 got to say Hey you know to your friends
 I've got to go home uh cuz I'm doing
 this and I think that shows massive
 resilience MH and it just creates real
 strong habits and then like it's not a
 bad thing like you're not going to miss
 out everybody feels like they're going
 to miss out but it's just like you know
 your friends probably go oh [ __ ] like
 he's really serious about this and
 probably encourage you to do it more and
 it just like you said you're getting
 that done over the weekend there's no
 reason why you can't you probably
 actually have more energy on the
 weekends because you haven't got work
 and stress and all these other things so
 you're probably going to get more out of
 the workout because you got more effort
 to put into it you probably got more
 time to cook some decent food and in
 that time on the weekend you can cook a
 little bit more which is your food prep
 for the week M um so I think it's a
 great
 um obviously we haven't had to need to
 do it too bad like again like my
 schedule's probably terrible and I don't
 follow the program to the best of my
 abilities anyway but again I just like
 going in the gym and working out like
 even if I only have time for two
 exercise I'll go in and smash two
 exercise or whatever it is like um I
 don't get too fuss on that but for
 somebody that's trying to achieve a goal
 whether it's weight loss you know muscle
 game whatever I think if you are serious
 about it do it on the weekend
 cuz the biggest thing I find is people
 are putting everything first and then
 their workout and their goals last yeah
 so it's like oh yeah but I have to get
 this work done I have to do this for
 this friend I have to catch up with that
 person for a coffee and then I'll get my
 workout done where if you're doing it on
 the weekend it's like well no I'm
 looking after myself I'm getting this
 done and then the rest of the week it's
 okay because you've got your workouts
 done so put you first and get it done on
 the weekend I think it's a great idea I
 feel like it's it'll also help with like
 adherence right because I know
 personally if I was to miss a Monday and
 then say I missed a Tuesday intuitively
 I would be like what's the point I might
 as well start again Monday I mean I
 wouldn't now because I've trained myself
 to just get over it and start again
 immediately as I notice but I know a lot
 of people would just be like oh I've
 I've fumbled the first half of the week
 I'll just pick it up again on Monday um
 and I feel like if you've already got
 two workouts like Saturday Sunday in the
 bag then it's a lot easier for you to
 not fumble it you're like I'm already
 halfway through the program this week I
 might as well pick it up on Wednesday
 even though I missed Monday Tuesday
 that's okay but for some reason we're so
 like our brains are so wired for like
 this monthly calendar and this monthly
 week that is completely and utterly made
 up yeah your body doesn't care what day
 day of the week it is it just wants to
 move and ex exactly so on the weekend
 let me know if you guys try it cuz I'm
 very interested to see if it helps the
 like take the pressure off the week
 coming um yeah I know a few clients like
 I said do do it and they smash out on
 Sunday and I think it's great yeah they
 gets crazy results
 yeah the next thing that I kind of
 wanted to
 discuss was
 carbs
 so ironically the past two weeks we've
 been super social been doing a lot of
 events seeing friends going out for food
 going to people's places for food and
 eating a lot of
 carbs not that we don't eat carbs
 normally like we do eat rice pasta bread
 on a regular basis right but I mean like
 we had fried chips fried chicken
 burgers 20 scon not really 20 scon um
 more bread wraps like there was just a
 period of time last week where we had
 the most refined carbohydrates we've had
 in a long time in a short window of time
 and I just recognized
 myself craving carbs like craving them
 so hard like nothing would make me happy
 or give me energy or make me feel better
 apart from carbs I was like I want pizza
 like I crave Pizza occasionally but I
 was like I it was more like I need I
 need pizza I need bread
 like and it was in
 because I don't think that we have done
 that for a while right it's almost like
 a carb overload and we are big advocates
 for carbohydrates we're not like low
 carb diet not at all people because your
 brain absolutely undoubtedly needs carbs
 as energy it's the First Source for your
 brain to function um but let's just talk
 about refined carbs because I feel like
 there is a big difference between you
 having carbs normally and then you
 having refined carbs normally and not
 being able to control
 yourself probably not even just your
 carb intake but your calorie intake in
 general right just but what's a refined
 carb just okay so a refined carb is like
 a heavily processed fast digesting carb
 carbohydrate that spikes your insulin
 and glucose quickly and drastically and
 then causes it to drop quickly and
 drastically um so that is like where you
 hear the phrase carb crash or energy
 crash is usually so things that are like
 white bread white pasta white
 rice chips
 lollies I don't know shapes crackers
 anything like that that's processed from
 wheat usually I hope it's processed from
 wheat if it's not processed from wheat
 and it's like one of those things that I
 just mentioned yikes get it out of your
 diet um but yeah so anything that's like
 heavily processed and gives you that
 Spike and then energy crash um you want
 to limit them even if you're having even
 if your diet isn't as optimal as you
 want it to be maybe consider those first
 because like I already knew this but I
 was like reaffirmed it on the weekend um
 they're just going to make you have
 insane Cravings like out of control
 Cravings so like we're not saying don't
 eat pasta eat pasta but eat pasta with
 protein and vegetables so that you feel
 satiated don't don't just have pasta and
 cheese don't just have like a Hot Chip
 butter and bread roll like carbs on
 carbs on carbs because your brain it's
 like it's your brain's main source of
 energy so it's going to tell you that it
 wants more because it gets a burst It's
 Like Cocaine for your brain I was going
 to say is that the reason why you start
 craving it more and more when you have
 it like soft drinks as well like you
 have a soft drink it's a lot of sugar
 it's a lot of energy and your brain's
 like hell yeah yeah I feel so good right
 now give me more energy but then it
 crashes so then it's like quick give me
 whatever we just had cuz I felt great 20
 minutes ago so this is like where a
 vicious cycle can happen but I don't I
 really really don't want to say I'm
 anti- carbs cuz I'm not I'm just like
 the right carbs the right carbs and be
 conscious of the amount because like we
 had over a weekend period all of those
 carbs a lot of people would have like
 bread for breakfast a sandwich for lunch
 cereal or cereal for breakfast a
 sandwich for lunch and then say like
 pasta or pizza or burger for dinner
 that's just like carbs on carbs on carbs
 and obviously that's that's so much so
 many energy spikes and crashes so you're
 constantly going to be looking for
 something to replace that whereas if you
 can it might take a couple of days as
 well when you stop having refined carbs
 to feel okay again because your brain is
 still going to be like where is it I'm
 waiting for it like we usually get it at
 this time of the day um but once you get
 out out of it like out of the hamster
 wheel of seeking High refined carbs all
 the time you'll feel so much better like
 your energy levels will be so much more
 stable how energetic am I today can you
 tell guys can you tell how energetic I
 am and it's because it's been like two
 days of us being back to our
 normal um menu of food like protein
 veggies and a little cups is basically
 what we eat on a daily basis but like
 Monday oh my God I was like sad and slow
 Lish and hungry and thirsty and
 unsatisfied all at the same time because
 I'd just like done stupid [ __ ] all
 weekend but yeah um are we talking about
 the McDonald's thing yeah why not but I
 just wanted to I think that ties into
 all perfectly because McDon like
 McDonald's and any fast food or chips or
 anything you find in the supermarket
 they have dialed that in perfectly
 perfectly so it's a perfect so
 McDonald's bun is the perfect mixture of
 sugar so carbohydrates and fats in a bun
 Donuts all that sort of stuff they're
 just the perfect mix and a lot of people
 like oh no but it's just um carbs
 there's a lot of fat in there as well
 and it's just the perfect signal for
 your brain to go oh my God what was that
 give me more so that food is addictive
 as well and what we're about to talk
 about is how McDonald's
 basically created a whole another way to
 make you even more addicted to all their
 food as
 well which is the kiosk I didn't realize
 I mean everything around us has
 psychology in it everything is there to
 manipulate us but I didn't realize how
 manipulative the mac's K McDonald's
 chaos is but this is what I I've said
 this in many episodes like if you don't
 obsess about your food somebody else is
 going to obsess about it and McDonald's
 is obsessed about you eating food so
 they spend billions of dollars so the
 kiosk
 is said to have made McDonald's an extra
 $2.1 billion globally but still 21 $ 1580.12 billion extra in sales so not just in
 Sal but extra sales on top of what they
 were already making so like we we we'll
 link the video that I watched that I
 sent to you to watch as well go and
 watch this especially if you do it at
 McDonald McDonald's I don't I can't
 remember the last time I've actually
 eaten there and used a kiosk yeah when
 you actually said the kiosk I was like
 what the what's a kiosk at McDonald's
 because like self- sered checkout type
 thing I know now cuz I watch the video
 but because we don't go to McDonald's I
 wasn't like it took my brain didn't
 automatically know what you were talking
 about which is crazy right um I think
 the only time I've used it was when we
 were still living in bdale and I was
 still in my party era and we would the
 club was across from McDonald's and we
 would go to McDonald's after the club
 and I remember the first time we used
 the kiosk we were all drunk but it was
 such a novelty it was so exciting it was
 like a game and that's the whole point
 right that's the whole point of the
 chaos and it was just like oh it's
 saying we could get nuggets on this
 let's yeah let's get nuggets we didn't
 know we wanted nuggets but now we do so
 let's get them oh you want to upsize it
 and we're like it's it's a freaking game
 and it's so scary to like but the one
 example they had in the video it's like
 you go in just for a burger and all you
 want is a burger but the chaos is that
 good and that manipulative that you end
 up with two burgers side of nuggets
 sauce chips and a dessert and a drink
 and that's about 2,000 if not more
 calories in that one meal yeah and to
 people who don't know that is a daily
 intake for basically me mhm and I'm
 about 95 to 100
 kilos and that's enough food for me for
 that in one meal like it's just like
 going to a petrol station and filling up
 your car and then standing there and
 putting double in there and just going
 to keep leaking at the top yeah and it's
 just like you would look like a fool
 doing that but that's what you're doing
 to your body but also like why are the
 kiosks I'm really interested in why the
 kiosks are so effective one I think you
 don't have to interact with a human
 which a lot of people like right now
 there's which takes away the pressure of
 you making a decision right but it's
 also like you're telling somebody that
 you want all this food like this food
 that's you know it's not good for you it
 takes that barrier away as well yeah so
 you don't have to go up to someone you
 don't have to tell someone the unhealthy
 food that you want there's no one
 necessarily waiting in line behind you
 and also listening to what you're
 ordering as well um
 you don't have to feel guilty about
 upsizing if they try to upsale you like
 that's just the person part of the kiosk
 but then when you order in the kiosk
 like the design of it is there to
 manipulate you like just take notice of
 what how what next time if you go to
 mackers I hope you don't but if you do
 just take note of the design and like
 think about what could be manipulating
 you like for example they list the
 burgers in order of most expensive to
 least expensive
 so that you feel less guilty like cuz
 you see like oh that's a $7 Burger yikes
 I'll get the $4 burger and save money on
 momento go to the next page and then it
 will say oh you got the $4 Burger maybe
 you want to get fries and coke with that
 and you're like you know what I do so
 then you add fries and coke and every
 time you add something to your bag it
 comes up with a little bag like aoon
 with a tick like you've won a freaking
 game like you've done something right
 you've something right and then it will
 take you to the next page and like oh
 wait a second look you could get nuggets
 or this weird Pizza I don't know they
 sold like pizza pockets there I think it
 depends like the menu different country
 yeah true or like this McFlurry and
 you're like oh that's yeah I could
 really and you just it's endless like
 you could endlessly add those things no
 one's judging you because it's a machine
 and then you pay in your yeah you get
 you 2,000 2,000 calories for the day and
 your set but it's so there so much
 manipulation it's insane it's so
 McDonald's first is a real estate
 business so those that don't know
 McDonald's Main revenue is their real
 estate so they have the most real estate
 out of every company in the world what
 in some of the best locations in each
 city in the world yeah of course um and
 now I reckon they're a tech company so
 $ 1854.80 billion that's more than pretty much
 every tech company in Australia would
 make yeah um
 but the algorithm like they go on the
 video they actually change the video and
 what certain people see on the screen to
 just tweak the algorithm so it's is
 absolutely perfect so you end up
 spending more money and getting more
 food than than what you wanted it's
 absolutely crazy should we go to ma up
 the road just to play with it I'll end
 up with 4,000 calories worth of food I
 wouldn't I feel like the smell like when
 you don't have it for so long the smell
 is just it's kind of off ping now m I
 don't know but yeah so so interesting I
 highly recommend the YouTube video cuz
 it's yeah please go if you do it even if
 you don't it's super interesting again
 it just goes into the thing like into
 the theory that I say that you know you
 need to focus you need to obsess about
 what you putting in your body cuz
 McDonald's is absolutely obessed
 obsessed about it and I'm willing to
 spend whatever it takes to get you to
 eat their food yeah um so yeah go and
 watch it
 it's very eye opening it's pretty cool
 um really cool and yeah it's just cool
 to see and then like the worst thing is
 like in the video they say every other
 fast food chain is just copied and they
 all have the same algorithm same kiosks
 so it's just like it's just even more i'
 I watch that and then I walk past the
 KFC near the gym and I've never noticed
 how busy it is and I sort of had a quick
 squeeze in there and yeah just everybody
 crazy just at the chaos just and I was
 like sh it like cuz works it's real
 we're out of the freaking Loop yeah so
 if you watch it and you have an
 experience doing it let us know cuz
 we're obviously not going to have
 experience going to McDonald's and
 eating it yeah and using the kiosks
 something else that we are massively out
 of the loop on I've noticed is the
 Olympics what is up did we miss the boat
 I remember when I was a kid being really
 excited by the Olympics and being really
 inspired by the Olympics now it's mean
 but I just don't I feel like I'm missing
 something am I missing something yeah I
 feel like is it because there's not as
 much H I don't feel like there's as much
 hype around it this time because no one
 really wants to host it so maybe there's
 not as emphasis there's not as much
 emphasis on bringing attention to it I
 don't know I don't know sort of keeping
 an eye on it here and there but I'm not
 stay I'm not up at 2 a.m. to watch a
 certain event live yeah but some people
 still are some people still are um yeah
 I don't know it could just I was
 thinking that as well it could just be
 we are out of the loop but also again
 like I've been lot watching the business
 side of things and seeing how more and
 more people don't want to host the
 Olympics because it's just not worth it
 financially for the city that that is
 hosting it or the country um and yeah
 it's just interesting like
 but it's is that again just the product
 of where we are cuz you know back in the
 day we didn't have social media and all
 that sort of stuff to watch it that's
 what I was going to say I was we had to
 watch it on TV if you don't watch it on
 TV you're not going to watch you're not
 going to see it but now you can sort of
 follow along like you can
 follow if you're interested in a sport
 you're obviously going to have a
 favorite athlete and you just follow
 that athlete you're probably going to
 learn as much as you need to without
 actually watching the Olympics that's
 what I was thinking I've watched a lot
 of like the gym gymnasts gymnastics is I
 don't know why I'm I'm have an interest
 in gymnastics who knows but so much of
 it is on like my Tik Tok feed I don't
 even slightly feel the need to go and
 watch the long event when I can just
 watch them do their freaking winning
 flip across the platform you know what I
 mean like the the gratification for
 seeing them win is so much easier to get
 on my phone than it would be for me to
 commit to watching the whole event which
 does is that going to negatively impact
 the Olympics like what is even why are
 we still even doing it like because
 obviously it matters to a lot of people
 because there's still a lot of athletes
 that are
 competing
 right because if they just stop hosting
 the Olympics what do all of these
 athletes do exactly exactly like they
 probably dedicate their whole lives to
 go into the Olympics because it is a
 pretty incredible title to hold getting
 a gold medal medal at the Olympics yeah
 but
 then the popularity of each sport is
 growing obviously
 um let's take mountain biking or even
 surfing so surfing is in the Olympics
 now uh it's I think it was actually done
 in Tahiti cuz uh France didn't have good
 waves so it's a bit weird again that's a
 whole another topic but like surfing now
 I feel like the actual surfing itself as
 a sport has gotten more popular because
 of social media so the Olympics is sort
 of on comparison with the social media
 if that makes sense it's l not like
 again you can watch it all through
 social media rather than you know just
 watching it on TV I feel like it's more
 diluted in a good way because an athlete
 be can become popular and good at that
 Sport and make a living outside the
 Olympics where before it was only the
 Olympics like you would only go and
 compete at the Olympics to make money
 now you can make money on social media
 being a you know top level aete like
 athlete that's you know entertaining on
 Tik Tok and that sort of stuff so yeah I
 think that's sort of taken away from it
 as well but um but I feel like the the
 Olympics
 itself the governing body needs to maybe
 step up a little bit as well yeah what
 is that role even they're just like who
 wants it we're holding it and someone
 someone put your hand up and then we'll
 just give it to you and see you later
 that's how it appears I feel like they
 need to come into the whole social media
 World a little bit more and you know
 have a channel and broadcast it all over
 social media yeah they lose TV rides and
 all that sort of stuff but that's where
 everybody is no one's on TV any like the
 new generation coming through so if you
 don't cater to that new generation
 coming through the popularity is just
 going to get less and less so I feel
 like but they sort of just put it up to
 the city so say brisbane's hold holding
 it in
 2032 it's like up to Brisbane to use
 social media to pump the advertise but
 then again they're not really allowed to
 because of TV rights but I feel like the
 Olympic should be doing more to engage
 audience and be their own brand if that
 makes sense instead of each City it goes
 to yeah that would make a lot more sense
 because especially because there's a big
 gap in between when they host each games
 yeah I was thinking about how I saw a
 real ironically about um like the
 Olympics at some point in the 1900s a
 gymnast event and like what was gold
 medal performance and this woman is just
 like prancing across like the padded
 floor like doing little jumps and stuff
 and she did like a back bend what do you
 call it a like where you put your hands
 back over your head and you flip and
 stand up again whatever that's called
 and she did that and then did like a
 little pose and it was like Wow and that
 won the Olympics and now you see like is
 it Simone
 B boy B who is just absolutely dominated
 the gymnastics this year for the US um
 and she is just like absolutely throwing
 her body across that like mat like doing
 flips and Twirls and [ __ ] but the amount
 of skill and intensity between that
 event in the 1900s and the event now in
 2024 Insanity like absolutely insane but
 I also feel like maybe because of social
 media it's not as impressive because you
 can see that that kind of [ __ ] on the
 internet anywhere whereas back in like
 say I don't know when
 1940
 1950 to see that was really rare like to
 see a bodybuilder was super rare like
 these people were freaks because it
 wasn't they didn't have as much exposure
 like people couldn't see that kind of
 stuff and so obviously there wasn't much
 competition either whereas now it's
 everywhere so the competition is much
 higher the skill has to be much higher
 the dedication has to be much higher I
 don't know yeah and I reckon in the last
 say 50 years which is what our parents
 era of you know they they're probably
 the biggest you know Olympic people like
 fans at the
 moment over the last 50 years you're
 right we've had such an increase
 of technicality and performance and
 probably a lot of drugs in
 between like where can we go from now
 it's like but like each year each every
 four years the last 50 years like you
 watch the athletes just get better
 better better and the sports gets better
 better better and now it's sort of like
 I feel like it's almost plateaued sure
 they're almost at Peak capacity cuz
 that's what's it it's almost like okay
 well we all know you're you're doping so
 just keep doping as much as you want to
 go to the next level whatever that looks
 like because what it like you know how
 else can they be better than they are
 now yeah for the last you know say five
 Olympics it's all almost looked the same
 like no like yeah somebody dominates and
 there's going to be a genetic Freak come
 through every now and then that goes a
 little bit better you say bolt is a good
 example like that like absolutely
 dominated and made it look easy but you
 know that's one in one you know yeah is
 that going to happen more like I feel
 like now this Olympics everybody's at
 the same level that Usain B was you know
 like yeah like there's less anomalies
 yeah harder it's just everybody's that
 good it all looks the same yeah and it's
 not getting better
 interesting love to hear what everybody
 thinks anyway out there um but yeah
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 the athletes or not athletes we should
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 humans athletes that would want to come
 on the and talk about this actual topic
 would be amazing imagine um awesome
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