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Matt and Jay discuss the benefits of COVID-19, why masks are making America more attractive, coronavirus and traffic, Chris Hemsworth's free 10-minute video bodyweight workout, becoming mentally strong during coronavirus... and much more!

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Fight Club (1996) by Chuck Palahniuk

Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with white collar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes, loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.

Fight club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius, and it's only the beginning of his plans for violent revenge on an empty consumer-culture world.

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"Fight Club" Show Notes

0:00 - Intro to "Fight Club"

Chuck Palahniuk's goal is to slap modern men out of their comfortable, routine, meaningless, consumer-driven lives and challenge them to try something terrifying and transformative.Intended audience: Anyone with a Y chromosome; anyone who likes dark, intense stories; anyone who struggles with existential angst; anyone who's never been in a fightPeople who won't like it: Conformists, consumers, people who only like stories about nice people doing good things

5:30 - How easy is the book to read?

Easy to read - although because of its bleak subject matter and nihilistic overtones you may want to take breaksPrint: 208 pages (5-7 hours)Audio: 6 hours

6:30 - Reviews and significance of Fight Club

Book (1996): 2,352 reviews - 4.6 starsMovie (1999): 4,375 reviews - 4.7 starsCurrently: #48 Amazon - Satire Fiction#62 Amazon - Self-Help & Psychology Humor#107 Amazon - Dystopian Fiction#6 Audible - Satire Fiction#24 Audible - Dystopian Science Fiction

10:15 - Bio of Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk - Born in 1962 (58 years old) Grew up in a mobile home in Burbank, WashingtonParents divorced when he was 14, moved in with his grandparents on their cattle ranch in eastern WashingtonGraduated University of Oregon (Journalism) in 1986 - He was 24Worked as intern for NPR in Eugene, OR / Wrote for local paper in Portland, OR Worked for Freightliner as a diesel mechanic  - Wrote manuals on fixing trucksDid volunteer work for a homeless shelter. He also worked as a volunteer escort for hospice, providing transportation for terminally ill people and bringing them to support group meetings. He stopped volunteering after one of his favorite patients died.Began writing fiction in his mid 30sHis first novel, Invisible Monsters, was rejected by every major publisher and wasn’t published until after Fight Club was successful.Fight Club was published in 1996. Palahniuk received a $6,000 advance for the novel - something he calls “Kiss Off” money: “An advance so low the author is supposed to feel insulted and walk away.” He took it anyway - it covered his rent for a year. His fourth novel Choke (2001) was his first NYT best-seller Palahniuk writes in the “Transgressive Fiction” category. His novels are about subjects like:Death cults (Survivor - 1999)A teenager who dies and goes on a tour of hell (Damned - 2011)Ritual magic, spirit possession and environmentalists (Lullaby - 2002)A porn actress attempting to break the world record for serial fornication with 600 men in a row (Snuff - 2008)To date, Palahniuk has written 15 novels, 3 non-fiction books and numerous short stories and other works - including several coloring books and graphic novels.

12:30 - Book-to-Movie Translation

Matt: Amazing. Fight Club is THE best book-to-movie translation ever.Jay: Loved both versions. Every guy needs to experience both.

15:30 - Major Themes of the Book

EmasculationModern men are anesthetized and emasculated - they watch other men do things. "Being a man" has become owning the right watch or car instead of knowing what your values really are.The Narrator experiences emasculation in the face of Tyler's relationship with Marla. He feels like he has lost his place next to Tyler, who embodies a perfected sense of masculinity. The

Fight club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius, and it's only the beginning of his plans for violent revenge on an empty consumer-culture world.

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Matt and Jay discuss 12 Reasons You Need To Breathe On Purpose. Research-based benefits include: Lower cortisol levels, up to 58% reduction of depression, higher energy levels, improved memory, body detox and weight loss! Plus: One health benefit of smoking, two breathing techniques you can use today, how to improve your pain threshold...and more!

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Episode 45 - Breathe, Man

6:00 - Life is more stressful recently...have you noticed?

8:00 - News right now: "Did you know? Coronavirus has already killed your children. All of them."

10:30 - Worry is our new national pastime

12:30 - Ways to reduce stress - alcohol probably isn't one of them

WASM Article: How To Work from Home

14:30 - Working out at home during coronavirus = Still difficult

WASM Article: The Ultimate 3 Month Workout Program

16:30 - Super fast destressor: Breathe, man

17:30 - 12 Reasons You Should Breathe, Man / #1 Breathing Lowers Your Stress Level

18:30 - Study: Factory workers with breathing training had 58% less depression!

21:00 - Quick emotional reset: Ask yourself "What's the WORST thing that could happen in this situation?"

23:30 - Using this time during coronavirus to get better at managing your stress levels

25:30 - #2 Breathing Makes You Calmer / Study: Breathing faster takes you to a higher energy level, breathing slower calms you down

28:30 - #3 Breathing Helps Stop You From Automatically Responding To Difficult Circumstances

WASM Article: Why You Need the Rule of 10

32:00 - #4 Breathing Improves Your Memory / UCLA Study

34:30 - #5 Breathing Lowers Cortisol, Improves Digestion / According to New York Medical College psychiatrist Dr. Patricia Gerbarg

38:30 - #6 Breathing Improves Cardiovascular Health / So says cardiologist Dr. Kimberly Parks

41:00 - #7 "Breathing Increases Energy" according to Patrick McKeown, author of The Breathing Advantage

42:30 - #8 You Lose Weight By Breathing - Up to 200g of carbon per day

TED Talk: How You Lose Weight By Breathing

45:00 - #9 Breathing Lowers Pain and Increases Your Pain Threshold / University of Rosenburg study

46:30 - #10 Breathing Helps To Detox Your System / You breathe out volatile gasses - the more breathing, the better you can detox

50:00 - #11 Breathing Boosts Your Endorphins / Study shows monks get endorphin boosts through meditation and breathing

52:00 - #12 Breathing Increases Oxygen In Your System / O2 can make your body perform up to 16x more efficiently if you breathe, man

54:30 - Diaphragmatic breathing - breathe, man into belly, not your chest

56:30 - Using the "4/7/8 Breath" technique

60:00 - "Square Breathing" technique 5/5/5/5

62:00 - One of the biggest benefits of smoking is actually from the deep breathing

Remember to breathe, man!

Matt and Jay discuss why you need to start breathing on purpose. Research-based benefits include: Lower cortisol levels, up to 58% reduction of depression, higher energy levels, improved memory, weight loss (seriously) and more!

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Ready Player One (2011) by Ernest Cline

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS - the new internet. Wade spends every day searching the OASIS for James Halliday’s Easter Egg and the promise of billions of dollars in riches that could come with it. But he’s not the only one searching. Soon it will be a life-or-death race to solve the puzzles and find the Egg before the OASIS - and the minds of billions of people - ends up under the control of an evil corporation.

Filled to the brim with nerd nostalgia and thrilling from start to finish, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One is THE cult classic video-game novel and one of the best love letters ever written to the 1980s.

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"Ready Player One" Show Notes

0:00 - Intro to "Ready Player One"

On the surface this book is a pure sci-fi adventure story and it totally works at that level. However, like all great books, if you dig deeper there are many deeper themes. Cline deals with obsession, isolation, existential horror, depression and self-loathing in a surprisingly direct way. Intended audience: Anyone who is addicted to video games, sci-fi or nerdy things, 80s nostalgia. Also people who love futuristic stories.People who won't like it: Video game haters, luddites and anyone scared of technology (looking at you, 5G/Coronavirus conspiracy theorists...)

5:30 - How easy is the book to read?

Easy, fun reading. It could take you a lot longer if you want to look up all the hundreds of deliciously obscure pop-culture references Cline has included throughout the book.Print: 386 pages (10-12 hours)Audio: 15 hours

6:00 - Reviews and Significance of Ready Player One

23,741 views, 4.6/5 starsTHE Classic video game novelCurrently: #15 Amazon - Computers and Internet Humor#11 Amazon - Humorous Science Fiction#15 Amazon - Time Travel Science Fiction (???)#1 Audible - Hard Science Fiction#2 Audible - Adventure Science Fiction#222 Audible - Overall out of all Audible books

10:15 - Bio of Ernest Cline

Born in 1972 – 48 years old Grew up in Ashland, Ohio (Columbus Ohio is where Ready Player One is set)Was a huge nerd from childhood; in love with Star Wars, John Hughes movies and D&DHad a wide array of jobs, including: restaurant cook, web designer, radio personality and computer tech support1997-2001 – Live poetry performer, winning Austin Poetry Slam contests in 1998 and 2001; He has published several books of his poetryThe book “Ready Player One” sold in a bidding war. Random House won. Warner Bros. bought the rights to the screenplay the next day with Cline as script co-writer.Cline set up an elaborate real-world Easter Egg hunt within his own book. Three puzzles (keys) needed to be found and three challenges (gates) were set up. Reward for solving Cline’s Easter Egg: A fully functional customized 1981 DeLorean - with added Flux Capacitor! (time travel probably not available…)For more details on Cline's awesome Easter-Egg-In-a-Book-About-An-Easter-Egg, check here https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/ready-player-delorean-contest-winner-announced.htmlCline also wrote the sci-fi novel “Armada” which came out in 2015. Film rights for the movie were sold a few days later for 7 figures. Paperback of “Ready Player One” currently in its 17th printing

13:30 - Book-to-Movie Translation

Matt: Not great. Book had so much more detail plus the movie added a huge love-story that dramatically changed the theme and plot. However the OASIS in the movie was amazing.Jay: I loved both!

15:30 - Major Themes of the Book

Reality vs IllusionWhat’s happening in real life vs In your mindNerds and UnderdogsNone of the protagonists are physically strong, rich, powerful, influential...ObsessionAll the characters do is play video games, watch movies, listen t

Filled to the brim with nerd nostalgia and thrilling from start to finish, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One is THE cult classic video-game novel and one of the best love letters ever written to the 1980s.

Outlined in this classic book are the concepts of hypergamy, positive masculinity, feminine imperative, plate theory, operative social conventions and the core psychological theory behind Game awareness and "red pill" ideology.

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Matt and Jay discuss how to thrive working from home, the surprising health benefits of telecommuting, Deep vs Light work, the right way to set up your home office, taking care of your body, why you need noise-cancelling headphones, video chat horror stories and much more!

Our “Sexual Magnetism” book is coming soon! We’ll be offering limited advanced copies and deep discounts but ONLY if you've signed up for our email list! To sign up head over to https://www.wearesuperiormen.com/join/

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Make sure to listen to our 30-minute book review show "The Superior Men Bookcast" - available now with your TSMP subscription. Bookcast #13 “Ready Player One” is coming May 5!

Episode 44 - How To Thrive Working From Home

WASM Article: How To Thrive Working From Home

6:30 - Everyone's home from Coronavirus

8:30 - Feb 2020 - 4.7 million people working from home / Now who knows how many?

10:00 - Matt has worked from home for 4 years, lots of experience

12:30 - The multitude of benefits of working from home, less stress, happier, no commute, more convenient

14:00 - Using COVID time working from home then leverage your work-at-home skills after COVID is over

17:30 - Top 10 Ways to Thrive Working at Home

18:30 - 1. Set Up a Dedicated Work Area

21:00 - Don't work at Starbucks if you're going to be the douchebag who is constantly talking on your phone

24:00 - If you don't create a dedicated work area you're going to fail

25:30 - 2. Get the Right Equipment

26:30 - Matt sits on a Yoga Ball while he works at his computer

30:00 - How NOT to use Video Chats

33:30 - 3. Setting a Consistent Work Schedule

WASM Article: Scheduling Every Minute of the Day

36:00 - Let everyone know the times that you ARE available and the times you ARE NOT. Set boundaries first.

39:00 - Schedule DEEP work and LIGHT work

41:00 - 4. Schedule Breaks Throughout the Day

44:00 - 5. Take Care of Your Body

Great 10-minute stretch program from Outside Magazine

46:30 - Using great posture - engage your core

48:30 - Remember to breathe

49:30 - 6. Adjust Your Work Hours for Maximum Productivity

53:00 - 7. Mitigate Distractions

55:00 - Noise-cancelling headphones can be quite useful

56:00 - 8. Be Available To Your Manager

58:30 - Communicate regularly with your manager

60:30 - "Bad news doesn't get better with age" - If you have a problem, tell your team ASAP

61:30 - 9. Many People Have Learned How To Thrive Working At Home

63:30 - 10. Work from Home Job Finding Resources

Forbes Article: 10 Work From Home Job Websites

Matt and Jay discuss how to thrive working from home, the surprising health benefits of telecommuting, what is Deep vs Light work?, taking care of your body, noise-cancelling headphones, video chat horror stories and much more!

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The Rational Male (2013) by Rollo Tomassi

The Rational Male is a rational and pragmatic approach to intergender dynamics and the social and psychological underpinnings of intergender relations. The book is the compiled, ten-year core writings of author/blogger Rollo Tomassi from therationalmale.com.

Rollo Tomassi is one of the leading voices in the globally growing, male-focused online consortium known as the "Manosphere."

Outlined in this book are the concepts of positive masculinity, the feminine imperative, plate theory, operative social conventions and the core psychological theory behind Game awareness and "red pill" ideology. Tomassi explains and outlines the principles of intergender social dynamics and foundational reasoning behind them.

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"The Rational Male" Show Notes

0:00 - Intro to "The Rational Male"

This book was written as a science-based study of the underlying sexual objectives that drive women and men, both individually and collectively. Tomassi's goal is to help men take the “Red Pill” and unplug from the fem-centric Matrix worldview that dominates modern Western society

WASM Article: The Red Pill For Dummies

Intended audience: Any man who wants to see the world “as it actually is,” any man who has become bitter because of a woman (or women), any man who wants more and better sex, and any man who would like a successful long-term relationshipPeople who won't like it: Feminists, White Knights, AFCs, anyone who secretly believes in Disney romance and "happily ever after"

5:00 - How easy is the book to read?

Difficult - Dense, complicated, verbose and filled with psychology terms but VERY valuable. Recommended to be read over the course of several weeks.Print: 302 pages (12+ hours)Audio: 14 hours

6:00 - Reviews and Significance of The Rational Male

1,639 reviews, 4.6/5 starsBedrock “Manosphere” Red-Pill primerCurrently: #49 - Dating#127 - Love and Romance#10 Audible - General Sexual Health (Assuming Sexual “Mental” Health here) #13 Audible - Sex & Sexuality

8:00 - Bio of Rollo Tomassi

Author of the Red-Pill classic “The Rational Male” and the follow-up books “The Rational Male, Book 2: Preventative Medicine” and “The Rational Male, Book 3: Positive Masculinity.”Creator of SoSuave.comOne of the first and most well-known bloggers of the manosphere - Started blogging in 2001Almost no personal information about Rollo - he’s deliberately and effectively anonymousRollo Tomassi is a pseudonym, taken from the movie L.A. Confidential. “Rollo Tomassi” was the name one detective gives to the anonymous, unknown man who killed his father. Is there a connection here? By naming himself “Tomassi” is this blogger saying, in his own creative way, that he had to “kill” the beliefs and worldview of his own father? Born April 1948 -- He’s 52 years oldMarried for 23 years (as of this podcast)Has a 21-year old daughterLives in Reno, Nevada“[A] lot of what prompted my writing was the suicide of my brother-in-law and another good friend back in 2003….these deaths were what moved me to try to help other men more directly.”

13:00 - Major Themes of the Book

Iron Rule of Tomassi #1 Frame is everything. Always be aware of the subconscious balance of whose frame in which you are operating. Always control the Frame, but resist giving the impression that you are.Iron Rule of Tomassi # 2NEVER, under pain of death, honestly or dishonestly reveal the number of women you’ve slept with or explain any detail of your sexual experiences with them to a current lover.Iron Rule of Tomassi #3Any woman who makes you wait for sex, or by her actions implies she is making you wait for sex; the sex is NEVER worth the waitIron Rule of Tomassi #4NEVER under any circumstance live with a woman you aren’t married to or are not planning to marry within 6 months.Iron Rule of Tomassi #5NEVER allow a woman to