Eat, Sleep & Train Like Your Ancestors - Robb Wolf | Modern Wisdom Podcast 320

The Guinness Book of World Records will let you jump a rocket car across the Grand Canyon. You can juggle flaming chainsaws, you know, there's all this stuff you can do. You cannot go for a unbroken sleep deprivation challenge, because the last three people that have tried it, they get between nine and 11 days, they tap out, they go to bed, and they die, and they have no idea why they die.

Robb Wolf, welcome to the show.

Hey, huge honor to be here. Thank you. Thanks for tolerating the, uh, the many reschedules that we had with my moving and everything.

Absolutely fine. So, you've just made the move to Montana. How come?

Uh, a variety of reasons. Uh, uh, primary to it, I, I have eight and six-year-old daughters and they grew up in this northern Nevada area, and four seasons, it snows, um, they played in the snow, they, you know, we had nice summers and stuff also. And then we moved to Texas, which was, uh, cool in a lot of regards, but it snows there about once every 35 years and they wanted to murder me for doing that to them. So, um, the move to Montana brought us closer to family. It also, uh, definitely, we, we just, I didn't realize it, like, we grew up in the m- the mountainous area, and, and as cool as the hill country of Texas is, it's just very, very different. And then there's also a Straight Blast Gym here in, uh, Kalispell, Montana that's just phenomenal and the whole family does Brazilian jiu-jitsu and it, it's, uh, an amazing community here. There's actually three gyms within the greater Flathead Valley area. So within 30-minute drive of my house, I have three different gyms that I could go do jiu-jitsu with. So, uh, uh, multiple factors, but those are the biggies. Yeah.

It's so interesting, as someone from the UK, to hear you essentially say the weather wasn't bad enough.

(laughs) Yeah. Um, we, uh, you know, it's funny because the, the bad weather is kinda relative, like, uh, and we lived in a part of Texas that was, uh, that is understood to be very mild weather-wise comparatively. Um, it's not the heat and humidity of say like a Houston or a Dallas or like a Corpus Christi or what have you. But, um, on like a Christmas Day, uh, you know, Celsius, it would be 32, 35 degrees Celsius (laughs) or something like that, you know, and, and, uh, uh, we're sitting outside, you know, barbecuing. And, and it was interesting, like, I, I think most places, if it's, if, if it's like cloudy outside, you have this sense that it's going to be cool, like you might need a sweater.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And in Texas, if it's cloudy outside, um, it means the humidity has come and it's actually hotter-

(laughs)