RockneCAST

In this episode, I am joined by home and office tech guru, Greg Johnson, my very first guest on the RockneCast.  Greg also helped me set up the RockneCast.  

Greg is a master at time management and leveraging his time.  He is also probably one of the best home and office tech consultants in Eastern Iowa. We discussed in depth a quote from great Stoic emperor, Marcus Aurelius, which he focuses on the "double satisfaction" of doing less things, better.  We focus on decluttering our time and our tasks to allow us fuller and richer personal and professional lives.

What is essential?  What can we remove? This is the essence of Life Crafting.

Greg also offers some tech tips at the end of the episode.  This was fun!  Greg is a whole bowl of awesomeness!!

Here is his website:  www.resourcesforlife.com

In this episode, we will explore why "following the science" as a kind of mantra actually inhibits science.  While I mention the mask debate relating to COVID, I do not attempt to resolve that debate here (or even discuss it very much), but rather, we'll explore how the inane "follow the science" mantra actually inhibits science, and why "experts" should not be the final arbiter on public policy questions or even on all "scientific" questions.

This was a fun one to prepare.  We'll discuss Thomas Kuhn's work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Karl Popper, Nassim Taleb, Socrates, Plato, Woody Allen, Albert Einstein, and Iowa State researcher, Danny Shechtman, who won the Nobel Laureate in 2011. 

Rather than "following the science", we should always embrace questioning the science, welcoming dissent, challenging the science, and listening to the rebels.  The "following the science" mantra has led to some extremely poor public policy decisions and clouded, uncritical thinking.  

In the case of mask COVID policy, "following the science" to justify masks has in fact, become a blindfold.

Happy Presidents Day!  In this episode, I discuss fasting and the holidays.  I also discuss two upcoming monk fasts that I will be doing.

This episode is a short one!

Happy President's Day! This my second episode relating to the awesomeness of Abe Lincoln.

We'll cover two addresses at Gettysburg, the famous one by Abe, and the long winded version Edward Everett, the featured speaker, who is typically glossed over as the long winded two hour speech prior to Lincoln's speech.

Here I give Everett his due.  Yes, he was a little bit of a windbag, but there's some good stuff in the speech too.  It's kind of a little history lesson on Greece, England, Germany, Rome, a description of Gettysburg itself, the reasons for the war and the South's bs arguments for waging the Civil War.

So, yes, in compared to Lincoln, yes, the speech kind of sucked, but it had some good kernels of wisdom too that I cover.

I'll also give Abe's Gettysburg his due at the end of this podcast as well.

This was a fun one to do.  My last episode on Abe kind of bombed, but such is the nature of this podcast.  I'll do stuff that interests the few and the many.  You guys seems to like the fasting episodes the most, but I am going to continue to do history episodes too because that's my true love.

Would love to hear your feedback on this podcast and on future topics that you would like to explore: [email protected] or [email protected].

Here, we explore Sisu, which is a Finnish concept roughly meaning toughness or courage. We rely heavily on the work of Joanna Nyland's book, Sisu - The Finnish Art of Courage.  I discuss five key concepts from Pata Degerman the Finnish Antarctic explorer relating to Sisu.

Finally, I share the most awesome music of Finnish techno stud, Darude, and his techno instrumental Sandstorm, which I believe perfectly captures Sisu.  Try some power pushups with Sandstorm, and you will be on your way to developing your own inner Sisu.

In this 4th and (for now), final episode on the work of Dr. Fung, I discuss the key takeaways of Dr. Jason Fung's life changing book, the Obesity Code, a book that changed my life and helped me to effortlessly lose 70 pounds.  

We'll discuss:

1.  Ketogenic Diets,

2.  Why he's more Keto "ish"  He's more "keto" ish, 

3.  Why he doesn't talk about low carb as such, 

4.  why sugar fricking sucks when you're trying to lose weight, and 

5.  the importance of when versus what we eat.

I also discuss a few things that he should have put in the book.  

This is our 3rd and most important episode relating to my review of the book that changed my life: The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung.  

After reading it, I effortlessly lost weight along with the most awesome Fastic App: 70 pounds to be exact.  Before ... Dad Bod, bloated, and 300 pounds.  After ... 230, skinny jeans, and fit.  

Do Keto ("ish"), Try Fasting.  Get Ripped.  That's it.   

Is it really that simple? Yep, it is, and you'll need to read Obesity Code to understand why.   

There is a raging controversy about two models of weight loss.  Some MD's and dieticians support calories in/calories out model.  Eat less. Move more.  You're fat because you're lazy and lack will power.

Others, and this is still the minority view, believe that view is garbage.  It doesn't explain why so many people fail using that model.   It's not that they're lazy or lack willpower.  They're focusing on the wrong model.

Dr. Fung, and countless others, now embrace the insulin theory of obesity.  Insulin makes you fat.  Understanding insulin optimization gets you thin.  

In this episode, I explore why believe the Insulin Rebels, including Dr. Fung, are right, and more importantly, why this is such an important issue to resolve.  

Getting it right is not only an academic issue.  Being fat makes you sick and dramatically increases your risk of death.  Your life may well depend on who is right and who is wrong.  

Whoa, this was a fun one to do!! If you loved this episode, send me an email at [email protected], or [email protected].

This podcast was recorded on February 12, 2022, Abe Lincoln's birthday.  

Why do we all love Lincoln so much?  What made him our number 1 president?

Through the lens of his Second Inaugural speech, we explore what made Lincoln so... fricking... awesome.  

We see two characteristics that are rarely possessed in one person: absolute, stone cold toughness in battle, coupled with total forgiveness after the battle was over.  He was a nice guy, tough guy.  

In this speech given just weeks before he died, he essentially gave an ultimatum to the South:

Option 1 - Keep fighting, and you will be crushed.  All chips in.  All in.  No compromise on the question of slavery.  You're going down.  In his beautiful words:

"Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword."  Get chills reading that with Lincoln pressaging Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, going all Old Testament on the South.  

Option 2 - Lay down your arms.  Recognize federal sovereignty.  Accept that slavery will be abolished.  And you will be forgiven, allowed to return home, and welcomed back.  

"With malice toward none, with charity for all..."  

This was a hella fun episode to do.  I am going to do a second one on the Gettysburg Address for Part 2.   Like US Grant, I have Mega Man Crush on Abe Lincoln.  I actually like US Grant better, but along with MLK, and US Grant, they are easily top 3 for me in terms of my favorite American Heroes.  TR is not far behind, but that will bee subject of another episode...

Whoa.  Just finished my first 48 hour fast of 2022!  For 48 hours, I drank only black coffee, and water with a little carbonation, mixed with a little iodized salt.  During that time, I ate no food or did not any liquids with calories.  

At hour 47 of a 48 hour fast, I share what I am experiencing relating to hunger, mood, energy levels, focus, and whether I am concerned about losing muscle with no food for 48 hours.  The fasting world is full of counterintuitive results arising from not eating for a specific period of time.  There are so many other benefits in addition to just losing weight, which I outline here.  

I also share how much weight I lost and whether I felt like eating too much at the end of the fast.

This was a fun one!!  

Betty the nutritionist has given you bad advice.  Calorie counting is not a great way to lose weight.  Sure, in the short term, with great pain, sacrifice, and peer support, you can lose weight adopting the standard model - high carb/low fat coupled with calorie counting, but in the long term you will likely rebound.  Betty is right in the abstract, but she's wrong about why you are eating too much.  It's not your will power.  It's not your weakness.  It's your model.  Your don't understand hunger and satiety hormones.

In this episode, we explore the awesomeness of Dr. Jason Fung and his ground breaking book, The Obesity Code.  After reading his book, I have easily lost 70 pounds, painlessly, effortlessly, and without any concerns about a food bender rebound.  It's easy because, with the help of Dr. Fung, and the app, Fastic, I know what makes me hungry, what makes me full, and more importantly, how to eat consistently with our shared ancestral wiring of 3.5 million years of human evolution.  After you understand that, weight loss is easy.

In this episode, we explore why Betty is soooo wrong through an exploration of the hunger hormone, ghrelin, and satiety hormone leptin.  I share some studies from the Obesity Code and my own personal experience relating to the power of intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets.  Keto and fasting will help you master what makes you hungry and what makes you full, resulting in you stuffing your pie hole less, losing weight, and getting ripped.  A six pack is not far away!!

This episode was fun to do!!