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The Most Positive Man On Earth - Rob Lipsett | Modern Wisdom Podcast 259

Rob Lipsett is a YouTuber and Fitness Model. While I was in Dubai I managed to get hold of the loudest, friendliest and most positive Irish man in history. Expect to learn Rob's advice for anyone trying to start a YouTube channel, why he can't wait for our robot overlords, what he's learned from a decade of bodybuilding, how he deals with haters and much more... Sponsors: Get 20% discount on Reebok’s entire range including the amazing Nano X at https://geni.us/modernwisdom (use code MW20) Get 50% discount on your FitBook Membership at https://fitbook.co.uk/showcase-your-work/ (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Check out Fuel Cakes - https://fuelcakes.com/ Subscribe to Rob on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/RobLipsett Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #fitness #roblipsett #artificialintelligence - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Chris WilliamsonhostRob Lipsettguest
Dec 17, 20201h 10mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:00 – 15:00

    What's happening long term?…

    1. CW

      What's happening long term? You gonna be a YouTuber at 50 years old?

    2. RL

      Joe Rogan's 52. He's the best YouTuber in the world, on paper. You know, he's killing it. Casey Neistat, Gary V., Sam Harris. Jordan Peterson is a YouTuber. All the people that I watch most on YouTube are all, like, in their 50s. So I used to think, like, "Oh, man, I can't be doing, like, these little vlogs forever." And in some way that's true. But I'll definitely always be online for the long term. Gonna be the world's oldest YouTuber. (laughs)

    3. CW

      Fantastic.

    4. RL

      Yeah. (laughs)

    5. CW

      (wind blowing) Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. I'm joined by the one and only Rob Lipsett. How are you, brother?

    6. RL

      What's going on? I'm great. I'm happy to be here. Beautiful views, we're in Dubai, sun's shining. Life is good.

    7. CW

      Just dropped the Mercedes off?

    8. RL

      Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice two-day rental. (laughs) That flex.

    9. CW

      (laughs)

    10. RL

      (laughs)

    11. CW

      2020's been mad, man. How's this year been for you?

    12. RL

      You know what? Um, I'm very into perspective and gratitude, and compared to, you know, w- what some people have been through this year, (laughs) first of all, haven't got corona, you know, that's great. And like, you know, haven't lost my job. Um, and, and I've still been able to remain a little bit of normality, so it's been great in, in terms of the context of things. Yeah.

    13. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    14. RL

      For sure.

    15. CW

      What about stuff that you wish you'd been able to change looking back on 2020? Any areas that you thought were weaknesses?

    16. RL

      For sure. So a, a really annoying thing was I did this, like, big series, like, I got fired up, I guess it had been episode five, about me competing again.

    17. CW

      Yes.

    18. RL

      You know, going back to men's physique stage. And I was like, "Nothing will stop me. I got this." (laughs) And then corona was like, "And you're gone." (laughs)

    19. CW

      (laughs)

    20. RL

      So it was kinda funny, but like, I got on day 30 at a ni- a 90-day prep, a 90-day series, and it was going really well. (laughs) And I was literally like, my favorite mo- my favorite motto is, I'll either find a way or make one. Like, in other words, no excuses. Then I was like, "Apart from corona, that's an excuse." (laughs)

    21. CW

      (laughs)

    22. RL

      So look, y- y- some things are outside of my control, um, um, but that's it. But no, I'm happy with the way, way things went, and uh, I wou- wouldn't really change much.

    23. CW

      Yeah. So one of the things I'm fascinated with about yourself is that you seem to be quite an effective serial monogamist.

    24. RL

      (laughs)

    25. CW

      So you've been in and out of a bunch of relationships that people who are fans of your channel will have noticed.

    26. RL

      Yeah.

    27. CW

      And you're able to balance those seemingly with traveling, with doing the YouTube thing. Like, every girlfriend becomes like a second videographer.

    28. RL

      (laughs) Oh my God, that's so true. I'm like, I got, first date, it's like, "Right, so, um, h- how are you on final cut pro?" (laughs)

    29. CW

      (laughs)

    30. RL

      I was like, "Color grading skills?" Yeah. Um, and, and what about, you know, do you know how to work in Music Back? (laughs)

  2. 15:00 – 30:00

    I don't think that…

    1. RL

      who's not on glorious (laughs) amounts of tren, is gonna try Kai Greene's routine. So, I remember I had, like, a bicep day, a tricep day, a forearm day, a calf day, a chest day, a trap day. It would be about 10 days 'til I got around to hitting the chest and legs again (laughs) . So, when I started off it was useless, 'cause just there was not good information out there. But then, as the years went on, better information started coming into the scene, uh, so it got much better. And then, around 2016, I was like prepping for my first show and I was, like, fully addicted a- and I was taking training, like, probably the most serious I ever did in my life. And then, the last couple of years, three years, I've kind of, like, you know, built a solid physique. I've learned how to incorporate that training and my diet into my lifestyle. And so now, I'm like, I can finally enjoy myself a little bit. So I know how to, like, you know, eat a meal out and kind of, you know, not, not, you know... Like, for example, if I'm eating a meal out, I'll know, just save a few calories for it, do some cardio, know how to balance it really. So yeah, my training is a lot more balanced now, um. But they're my three phases. So beginner-noob, extreme, and now, you know, balanced.

    2. CW

      I don't think that people existing in 2020 can understand what 2010, 2012 world was like-

    3. RL

      (laughs)

    4. CW

      ... for fitness information. As you're trolling through bodybuilding.com forums and T-Nation-

    5. RL

      Bro, the misc (laughs) .

    6. CW

      ... and T-Nation.

    7. RL

      T-Nage and Simply Shredded (laughs) .

    8. CW

      Going through, yeah. And desperately trying to find, like, how much... or how many grams of predigested aminos do I need to have before and after-

    9. RL

      Bro.

    10. CW

      Like, all of that stuff, that whole world, it was kind of a bit of a glory era because no one knew what the fuck they were doing.

    11. RL

      I agree. I, I kind of found it super interesting and en- enjoyable in a weird way. I was kinda like, "Will this supplement do anything?" (laughs)

    12. CW

      Probably not.

    13. RL

      Probably not.

    14. CW

      I'll spend £100 on it anyway though.

    15. RL

      (laughs) Probably not, but I'ma buy it (laughs) .

    16. CW

      Do you remember... I can't remember. Who was Jay Cutler associated with back in the day? Was it Nitroflex?

    17. RL

      MuscleTech.

    18. CW

      MuscleTech. Didn't they have a product where they were like, um-

    19. RL

      Yeah.

    20. CW

      ... when you open the lid, little particles of it are going to come out, so you have to not have the lid open for more than five seconds.

    21. RL

      Yeah (laughs) .

    22. CW

      Do you remember that?

    23. RL

      Yeah, yeah. I remember. And there was another one called No Xplode, you know, with like the original pre-workout.

    24. CW

      That was my, that was my fucking go-to.

    25. RL

      That and Jack treD- trac- treD. It was just, oh, heaven. So it was so funny, when I'd open the tub of No Xplode, me and my friends would take a sniff (laughs) .

    26. CW

      (laughs)

    27. RL

      And we'd be like, "Get, get a whiff of that No Xplode, boys. Straight through the biceps."

    28. CW

      The world of, like, pre-workouts, I've, I've switched a little bit. I'm sort of doing more functional fitness now and we just use NOCO or caffeine basically-

    29. RL

      Yeah.

    30. CW

      ... as pre-workouts. But the world of, like, mad pre-workout seems to have died down a bit. In the bodybuilding world, is it like that-

  3. 30:00 – 45:00

    Including some YouTubers as…

    1. RL

      industry is good at is informing people and, and being as educational as possible and showing off your knowledge. And, you know, (laughs) we're just being ragged on the fitness industry there. By the way, I love the fitness industry and the best people I've met my entire life, like, Mike for example, you- yourself, you know him if you know Mike, have been, um, connections made through fitness. So I think you'll actually find an extremely positive community on the most part because everyone's exercising, working out. And I think exercising regularly, you know, it doesn't have to be like super extreme, you don't have to be a body builder. But I think exercising regularly is possibly one of, if not the best thing someone could do. Actually, like I'm Rob Lipsett and I believe in fitness. (laughs) You know? I- I think it is the most important thing. Like when people are like, "Rob, what's the most important part of your day?" I'm like, "Getting a session in, working out." You know? And I, and it's not like... I'm not (laughs) I'm not half as impressive as Mike or a lot of these guys but just how it makes me feel, you know? And it kind of like anchors my day in the sense, it's like once I get a good workout in, like the rest of the day just flows well, you know? And something to, something to look forward to when you wake up as well. And so I think the majority of people would be a lot better off if they did, they did some form of resistance training.

    2. CW

      Including some YouTubers as well probably.

    3. RL

      Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. (laughs)

    4. CW

      Yeah. It's interesting man. I don't know like f- personally for me I'd, I've started watching, um, a bunch of stuff from probably the same kids you're talking about in LA-

    5. RL

      Oh yeah.

    6. CW

      ... and some of it is like enjoyable mindless watching.

    7. RL

      Yes.

    8. CW

      But it's the sort of thing that afterwards I feel a bit guilty about.

    9. RL

      Yeah, yeah-

    10. CW

      And I'm like-

    11. RL

      Absolutely. Oh, I feel guilty after going on TikTok. I-

    12. CW

      Oh god, that's... dude. We were with-

    13. RL

      Mind numbing.

    14. CW

      We were with a girl out here and my buddy George asked to see her screen time and she was averaging nine hours a day on her phone, three and a half hours every day was on TikTok and apparently you just sat there like watching and the way that she was moving was just like flick, flick, flick.

    15. RL

      Oh my god.

    16. CW

      Flick, flick. And I'd, I would go out and say on a limb, TikTok is the least value adding platform ever created.

    17. RL

      I would probably agree with that as well. Like there's a few accounts like motivation ones or ones about like business but they're very hard to find. (laughs)

    18. CW

      Snoring Up just dancing. up just people... Yeah, and people making their, their, uh, swimming pools turn green.

    19. RL

      Oh. I haven't seen that.

    20. CW

      Have you not seen it?

    21. RL

      (laughs)

    22. CW

      They put like these-

    23. RL

      You obviously spend a bit more time on it than me. (laughs)

    24. CW

      (laughs) Yeah, maybe I do. Um, but honestly man, like I- I, it really does sort of fucking concern me that how much can you get across in the space... What's the maximum a TikTok can be? 15 seconds, 30 seconds?

    25. RL

      Something like that, yeah.

    26. CW

      It's short.

    27. RL

      Yeah.

    28. CW

      So you're right, you have to get through a lot of crap for a small length duration of something that might be slightly informative.

    29. RL

      Yeah.

    30. CW

      I don't know.

  4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

    Hit me. …

    1. CW

      here's another interesting thing for you that adds to the simulation argument.

    2. RL

      Hit me.

    3. CW

      Okay. So have you heard of the Planck length?

    4. RL

      I have not.

    5. CW

      Right. So the Planck-

    6. RL

      Wait, is this how much I can hold a plank for?

    7. CW

      Yes, it is. That's... It's actually how long your plank is.

    8. RL

      (laughs) Yeah, what about side planks? (laughs)

    9. CW

      Yeah. So the Planck length is the... It- it's created by, I think, Max Planck, and it denotes the smallest length that exists. So below this, there is no smaller amount. And it sounds bizarre because you should be able to just continue halving stuff until it gets smaller, but that's not. Now, the way that that relates to the simulation hypothesis is that you would not be able to simulate a universe with unlimited fidelity or an unlimited resolution. So you remember your old CRT TV, if you went up right close to it, you could see the pixels.

    10. RL

      Yeah.

    11. CW

      And then now we've got retina displays that our eyes can't pick up but if you had a super magnifier, you would be able to see that as well. And the argument is that the reason that there is a minimum length within the universe, which is the Planck length, is because that's the resolution that the universe is created at.

    12. RL

      (laughs) Yes, we are living our best simulation right now people. (laughs)

    13. CW

      I mean, have you heard the fine-tuned universe argument as well?

    14. RL

      I haven't heard that one, but wait-

    15. CW

      Hit me.

    16. RL

      ... before you go, so... And now I'm gonna butcher this, okay? I'm gonna butcher this. But what's the study they studied something like neurons or energy and it changed the way it moves when people looked at it.

    17. CW

      Right. So that's quantum theory.

    18. RL

      Yeah.

    19. CW

      The observing a particle means that you can't basically see the motion and the position of something at the same time.

    20. RL

      Yeah.

    21. CW

      And observing it forces it to go into one or the other. Now the specifics of that, like this is where that looseness in the system is where people like Deepak Chopra, who I fucking hate-

    22. RL

      (laughs)

    23. CW

      ... like they slot in all sorts of weird quantum spookiness about like energy and- and- and spirits and stuff like that.

    24. RL

      Yeah.

    25. CW

      I don't-

    26. RL

      Secret. (laughs)

    27. CW

      Yeah, fuck me.

    28. RL

      Get him off.

    29. CW

      Whoa.

    30. RL

      Get him off the podcast.

  5. 1:00:00 – 1:10:14

    I, I, I think…

    1. CW

      negativity and criticism online?

    2. RL

      I, I, I think I actually care a bit less about it. As it grows, it just kinda, you get kinda used to it. Like, the first time you ever get a mean comment online you're like, "What?" (laughs) You're like, "Why would you say that to me? (laughs) Wh- how could this be happening?" And then, like, you just get so used to it. And now I find it really funny. Like, first of all, I actually get very little hate online, like, half the... You know, if there ever is a negative comment, like, someone's just joking, you know? Like, and it's just, like, you gotta learn to laugh at yourself. I think that's a huge skill to have, is, is just learning to just laugh along with things and just-

    3. CW

      Yeah.

    4. RL

      ... "Yeah, you know what it was pretty funny." And then when you see someone who's, like, cursing, you know, "Fuck you, wanker," blah, all the, every o- name under the sun, you're like-... you can't take that seriously, you can't get offended by that. If you get offended by that, you're, you're an idiot, you know? And so that's it, you just kinda get used to it and you just understand that some people are bored and, you know, they just have a bit too much time in their day and just give them a bit of empathy.

    5. CW

      Because their simulation's gone a little bit wrong.

    6. RL

      Yeah, their simulation... So it's some... And they've got their simulation on, like, difficulty setting extreme and they're like, "Ah, god, well, I need to rip off Rob Lipsett for a little bit."

    7. CW

      I need to... I need to start again with a better skin upgrade and-

    8. RL

      Yeah, yeah. (laughs)

    9. CW

      ... like, new outfit, blah, blah.

    10. RL

      Yeah. "I need to purchase some add-ons from the app store."

    11. CW

      Yeah. Yeah. (laughs)

    12. RL

      (laughs)

    13. CW

      (laughs)

    14. RL

      So I, I really don't mind at all and funny enough, you, you never meet a hater in real life, you know? And, and but-

    15. CW

      That's a good... That's an interesting insight.

    16. RL

      Yeah, yeah, you never meet a hater in real life. So it's just weird when people have, like, these anonymous accounts. Do you know what I compare it to? It's like when you're a kid and you do, you have the... I don't know what you call them in, in the UK, like, in America they call them a doorbell ditch. In Ireland they call them knickknacks.

    17. CW

      Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

    18. RL

      They're... So you have to go up and ring the doorbell, you run away. It's kind of like that, you know?

    19. CW

      It is kind of like that.

    20. RL

      It's just kids, like, yeah, they're l-... Or, or a prank phone call. Just leave them a little comment, anonymous, and run away really. So it's not something to take too seriously at all.

    21. CW

      What's happening long term? Are you gonna be a YouTuber at 50 years old? What's the plan?

    22. RL

      Well, you know what, okay? So y- I... You, you mentioned this before and you're like, "Oh, you don't wanna be, be a YouTuber at 50." And I was like, "Maybe I do." You know, I'm like... I used to think that, I was like, "Okay, I don't wanna, you know, be doing this forever." Then I'm like, "Joe Rogan's 52, he's the best YouTuber in the world, pretty much at like, on paper." You know, he's killing it. Casey Neistat, Gary Vee, uh, Jordan Peterson is a YouTuber, he's has more subscribers than me. (laughs) He is most definitely a YouTuber. Sam Harris. And then I'm like, "Wait, eh, all the people that I watch most on YouTube are all, like, in their 50s." So I used to think, like, "Oh, man, I can't be doing, like, these little vlogs forever." And in some way that's true. Like, you know, I won't be... It'll maybe turn into a podcast or, you know, something like a PragerU and that style of video, I, I love that. But I'll definitely always be online for the long term. And of course, I'm setting up companies along the way, the pancake venture, that-

    23. CW

      Tell, tell me about that.

    24. RL

      So that goes live today at 10:00 PM Dubai time, which is 6:00 PM Ireland and UK time. So basically I'm always making protein pancakes on my channel, and my first ever viral video, over a million views, was how to make protein pancakes. And at the time, I'm in... I'm living in, like, a hostel and I'm trying to start YouTube 'cause again, I had no job and I got, um, dropped out of college. And so I'm just trying to, like, make it as, like, a YouTube... Fitness YouTuber, like, a personal trainer. And so I'm making a video, like how to make perfect protein pancakes from scratch and there's like 10 different ingredients, but they're really good and they blow up and, you know. So now to this day, it's like a thing with my channel is like, "Hey, you know, watch this is Rob Lipsett making protein pancakes." And so I'm like, "I should make my own protein pancake company." You know? And so it's great, it's been up, the Instagram page has been up 48 hours. It's got like 11,000 followers and it goes live today and like I, I can't wait to see how it does. But I wanna turn that into a household name. Like, you know, I, I wanna get that in supermarkets, I want everyone to be starting their day or finishing their day with that. I love breakfast at night. And-

    25. CW

      What's special about that? It's the macros?

    26. RL

      It... The macros are, are amazing. And I, and I'm not just saying this, most of the time when you buy, like, protein pancakes off a submen company, the... It's like the protein is super high, yes, but it tastes like shit.

    27. CW

      Yes.

    28. RL

      And then this one, you can't notice the difference. I... This, this is true. Hand on my, hand on my heart. When I got the first sample, I sent it back and looked at the nutrition and ate them. And I said, "Oh, they've actually sent us the wrong thing. These are just pancakes, there's no protein in them." I go to send them back to the lab, they, they obviously just sent us, like, the wrong mix. And they're like, "Nope, that's the nutrition profile." And I'm like, "What?" I'm like, "I need to double check this." And then... And so they just taste amazing when having, like, insanely good macros, like the protein to carb ratio's within a few grams. It's, it's all gluten-free as well for people that, you know, are into that. Um, really all, like, organic and natural ingredients, like, very, very wholesome. And then they just taste amazing and it's a cool brand, it's called Fuel Cakes. And so they... I modeled it around 1950s cereal boxes.

    29. CW

      Yeah, it's cool.

    30. RL

      It's really retro.

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