Welcome back to another episode of AMERICAPLUS with your host, Cole McCormick. This week, Cole dives into a deeply personal topic: his health journey. With his girlfriend Shannon on a dream vacation in Rome, Cole finds himself home alone, reflecting on his life and health. He shares his health metrics from 2018 to 2024, revealing significant changes in his weight, body fat percentage, and muscle mass. He opens up about his struggles with weight gain, laziness, and the impact of his father's cancer on his mental and physical well-being. He discusses his past habits, current challenges, and new goals for a healthier lifestyle. Cole emphasizes the importance of muscle-centric health, accountability, and the need for discipline.
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Cole McCormick:
I'm getting a wee soft. What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. What's going on, everybody? It's Sunday, June 23rd, 9:39 in the PM. What's going on, everybody? Happy to be here. Really beautiful day to be alive. Beautiful week. Quick update on me, man. I've been home alone the last week, dude. My girlfriend is in Rome right now. Shout out to Shannon, dude. She's in Rome. She's doing her dream vacay with her mom right now. And so I'm getting all these sick, like, Statue of David pictures. I'm getting all these, like, really cool Venice photos from her. She bought a film cameras, and she's doing, like, these really, like, cool, ektachrome, 35 millimeter still photos. So, like, Shannon is, like, living her best life right now, and I've been home alone like a freaking loser doing nothing. Like, what do I do when I don't have a girlfriend home? I literally do nothing.
I eat. I watch YouTube, I sleep, and then I go to work. That's literally what I've been doing. And the last 4 days have been very eye opening, to 1 to 1 coldy coldy. And, what I wanna share, the the narrative this week, everyone, is, something that is near and dear to my heart. It is my, like, health numbers. Okay? This is very serious, very scary, very scary sit situation. No one likes to go over their health numbers. And this is not from, like, a doctor. This is not blood work. But I have this, like, just like a basic scale that does, like, BMI, body fat percentage, scale to muscle, just like the basic stuff that, like, an Apple Watch does. And I wanna share an evolution of my health since 2022.
Okay? So I've been doing the podcast while these numbers have been changing, and it's my intent to document, how I'm approaching my health. Because, you know, from my perspective, America Plus, a more beautiful world, this involves being healthy. This involves knowing everything you can about using your body, you know? Making sure your body is healthy. And I've been going through a lot of life, and my body has been changing, and I've made certain choices. And so pretty much, like, I like, let's just get into it. So if you're watching the video, I got them up. I have the these images in the chapters as well. The photo on the left, this is from 2018.
Okay? The photo on the right, it is from today, this morning, June 23, 2024. There's a big difference. Okay? The first thing the the biggest thing, in 2018, I was £171. This year, right now, today, I'm 215. Woah, bro. That's crazy. Now you might not think that's, like, too bad. Maybe, like, it it could be worse, but it has been, like, major weight gain. I do lift weights. A lot of it's muscle, which is pretty, like, it's okay. You know? Like, that's an okay number for me. It's not the best number. My intention with sharing these numbers is not to complain or anything. It's to just be transparent with how I'm thinking and what I want for, like, my life and how I can, like, best approach that. You know? So I don't care about the BMI. The BMI number is, like it's already telling me I'm overweight, so who cares about that? Like, I already don't like my body. I already grew up not liking my body. So, like, let's just figure out a way to love it, the best way to be healthy.
The body fat percentage. This is the most important number in my eyes right now, in in my current era of life. In 2018, I was 11% body fat, 11.6. And in 2024, I'm 16%, dude. 16% of my body is fat. And it used to be 11%. Of course, I was lighter. I had less weight on me, absolutely, but 16%. Like and if you look at me, like, if you look at my Instagram, like, dude, like, papa's getting a belly. Like, this is this is not something I'm proud of. This is not something that I really wanna, like like, share. You know? Like, I'm not self conscious about taking off my shirt when I go to the beach to do the beach workouts. But I am aware that I am, like, the only one.
Like, I'm one of the few guys at Muscle Beach with a gut. You know, like, with with some sort of belly situation going on. Everyone else hat is like shredded. Everyone else has 6 packs. Everyone else is, you know, doing as many pull ups as they can. They're doing core. They're thin. They're hot. They should be working at 2 PM, but they're at the beach. Where are they? Where am I? And, I just looking at this number 16%, like, of course, like, I'm like the fat like, that that that's like fat. In terms of healthy people, that's like fat fat, in terms of healthy people.
Now, here's the interesting number. Fat free body weight is 151 in 2018. In 2024, I'm 180. So I've gained £30 of fat free, and then my muscle mass has gone up as well. I won't go through all these numbers. I'm just going through, like, my, like, my most, like, interested. In 2018, my muscle mass was 144. This year, I'm it it's 171. So the good news, throughout these last, like, what is it? 8 years? 2018? I don't know. 6 years? In the last 6 years, I have gained muscle, which is amazing. But the bad news is that I've gained more fat. My now, the here's, like, the last number I'll share. The versoral fat. The fat or I'm sorry, visceral. Viceral fat is, that's the the fat around your gut. That's like your belly fat, the the fat around your intestines.
In 2018, my number was they measure it with just like a single number. The number for the cereal fat was 5. And the number for this year is 11, dude. 11. So, unequivocally, I have gained fat. And today, you know, it was just a big, like, wake up call, just being home alone, looking at these numbers by myself, thinking about my my habits. And this is the next section I wanna go into, like like, what are my habits? Now that I have these numbers and this information, what does this imply about my past habits? And to be totally radical real, you know, I, you could probably already guess this. Like, I haven't been that active.
I've been the last year specifically, I've gained the most weight this like, within the last year for since last June, I've gained a lot of weight. I've gained, like, 10 extra pounds. There was another, like, like, moment when I gained, like, another £10, and that was that was in 2022 when I started drinking raw milk. I was weighing 180 in 2022. I start drinking raw milk, and my my weight shot up. Like, literally, shot up within a few months till 197 or something, 194. And so I gained weight from raw milk, and then I gained more weight in the last year due to stress from my dad's cancer. And now we're here. And if and I'm thinking through the last 2 years. Okay? So the last 2 years, I started drinking raw milk.
I got a new job, and I started working out less. And that's been, like, the hardest thing to do, to, like, balance out. Like, I I I don't know why, you know? I I don't have an excuse. But when it comes to lifting, working out in the last year and a half, it's been met with a lot more laziness and a lot more not doing anything. A lot more just sleeping or a lot more just avoiding it or wasting time meandering around the apartment. And sometimes, on the days that I'm working, I usually gotta roll it in into the kitchen around, like, I don't know, 9, 9:30. And it's gonna take me, like, 30 minutes to drive to work. And so I gotta wake up, like, I need to wake up earlier and earlier, you know, to if I wanna have a good workout.
And I set the alarm, and I lay in bed awake, and I think about working out, and I think about breathing, and I think about doing this, and I think about doing that. And then I don't do it. Before I know, another, like, freaking an hour has passed, and it and I've just been thinking. Like, how annoying is that? I've just been thinking for the last hour and a half. And I I was thinking about working out, but I didn't really work out. What kind of a neuro neurodical fucking Woody Allen bullshit is that, dude? Like, I'm too in my head. Like, there's moments when I am way too in my head.
And so I need to change that pattern. And it's good that I'm aware of these things. And when I would work out, you know, I've gotten in a pattern of working out on an off day when I don't have work. And then when I do work out, it's like sometimes, like, a little lazy. It's like a lazy workout. I do, like, a few good reps. I do a few good sets. And then I, like, am just, like, lazy for, like, 5 minutes. And then, oh, I gotta do it again. Let's let's try to do it again. I do, like, one set. I hang out for another 5 minutes. Like, it's just like a lazy bullshit workout. And then I'm standing there for, like, an hour. Like, okay. Well, it's been an hour. Okay. I think I've done it off. But in reality, I barely got a sweat, I barely got a pump, and I'm leaving that area. I'm leaving that workout space, whether it be my, like, my yoga mat, or the park, or, the gym, whatever.
I'm leaving not feeling good. Like, how insane is that? How am I gonna go to an area to and have an intention and barely do anything about it? That's so not America plus. And so I'm just doing my best to practice what I preach, being open with my numbers, and being you know, committing myself to consistency for my body, you know. And if you if you look at me in life, you know, like, I don't think anyone really think that I'm, like, unhealthy, You know? And I'm not trying to say that. I'm not a victim of anything. I'm not I'm not trying to, you know, promote any sort of diet culture or promote any unhealthy habits.
But what I am saying is, I've seen in myself, not the best effort. I have not seen the best actions for myself when it comes to my health and my exercising routines. There's been an increase, like, a positive increase in other areas, like my meditation, and my, like, work ethic for the podcast, and video, and stuff like that. So, like, I've been succeeding in some areas in my life, and I've been getting more consistent and better. But, unfortunately, my health and my exercise, which is sort of like my core, you know, that's sort of like my origin story.
My like like, thinking about changing my body is literally my origin story. When I was in the 7th grade, I was overweight. I was 195, and I noticed that I was drinking a lot of soda. We would go to Olive Garden, and I would get, like, a glass of Sprite. And then I would suck that that glass of Sprite down so fast, they would bring me another and then another. And then at one point, it got to where the restaurant would bring over a pitcher of Sprite for me. A pitcher. And I was like, this is not normal. Like, I knew this when I was a kid. Like, I'm I'm pouring the glass with Sprite with my own pitcher. I'm like, I don't think this is normal. I think this isn't right. Like, what's going on here?
And I made the choice to stop drinking soda. And I lost £30. Like, I I I legit lost £30 just from not drinking soda. And and and I told myself when I was a kid, I was like, wow. Like, I really have control over my body. Like, I need to do more of this. Like, I need to exercise more. I need to do everything I can to do that. And it's been ebbs and flows, you know. Like, I have others other eras in my life when I've been depressed, and I've been sad, and stressed, and not doing my best. You know, there's another season in my life when just getting out of high school, not working out enough. For some reason, I okay. So my my my senior year, coming coming back from from Christmas break, seniors had the option to, like, take away a class. You know? To have, like, less school, towards the the end of the year.
And my last class like, you so you're you were able to to just, like, erase your your the the final class of the day, and you and you leave early. My final class was gym. And I was like, yeah, you know, I wanna go home early. And I just crossed it off. I didn't showed up to gym. I just left gym. It just didn't work out anymore. Meanwhile, all my friends are there, or most of my friends at least. Or some of them are, like, working out earlier in the day. Like, why did I leave gym? But I did. Gym. Like, gym from the office. Why did I leave the gym in high school? Still sort of a mystery. I was sad. I was depressed. I was lonely.
And I gained a bunch of weight. And then I went through a process through, through, like, early adulthood, like, you know, like, 18, 19 years old, 20 years old. I'm, like, change my my my life is being changed when I'm in 2017, and I finally lose a bunch of weight. And then we get into this 100 this 171 number. This this £171 Cole McCormack in 2018. This is like a golden number. This this £171, this represents like a winning mentality for me. This represents a time in my life when I really took charge, and I was inspired to be the best version of myself.
And I was coming clean off of a mushroom trip, a bunch of mushroom trips, moved out to LA that same era. You know, like, I'm on my own. I'm an adult. I'm paying for my own shit. I got a job. Like, I'm out here. I'm running. I'm doing it. And then, you know, just like more life happens. You know, I'm not gonna like, nothing around me is like is like the problem. You know? Like, it's it's always like, this weight gain is a reaction to the things in my life. You know? So I'm I'm definitely not trying to hate on myself, which I have done in the past. And I think there I I think maybe a lot of people might do that with their own weight, you know, if you struggle with weight.
As I look at these numbers, I then ask myself, what can I do? What will I do? What are we manifesting? Like, how are we making this better? What is the path to success and what does success look like? So here are my goals. I have some new body goals, some new weight goals. I'm 2 15 now. I'm 16% body fat. I would love to be 190 at a pretty solid 11% body fat. 190 at 11% body fat. I think I'll be very lean. I wanna build muscle. I wanna build more muscle. So maybe my my my muscle mass can increase, like like £10 possibly, maybe. Maybe I can lose £20, gain £10 of muscle. I don't know. I would love to see the Versal fat go back down into to to 5.
But the body fat percentage is really what I'm looking at. I want that shit to be down to 11, and I want my weight to be at 190, and I want more muscle. I just wanna build more muscle. I wanna be shredded. I wanna have proper just like you know, I work out at the beach. I should look like I work out at the beach. You know? Like, I live in California. I'm the health guy. I I wanna be the health guy. I talk about health. Like, I should look healthy even though, like, I do. But, like, I don't. I don't. But that's my goal. That's what I'm committing myself to. So I'm I've already been like, I'm always on, like, a health kick. You know, I'm always looking at some health podcast. I'm always listening to to different people. I was listening to Saladino for a while. I listened to Joe Rogan for a while. I listened to Mark Sisson for a while. Listening to keto like, ketogenic people for a long time.
And, now I'm on the on this, like, protein kick, you know, and, like, just figuring out, like, how how important protein is, how important, muscle is. A muscle centric, like, health outlook is super important. That's how you live longer with more muscle. So it's a new vibe for me right now, and I am going to the beach more often, doing those workouts. The workouts that I do at the beach, you know, I'm on these Olympic rings, I'm I'm getting stronger in my shoulders, dangling myself, like, like, hanging just like hanging like a monkey, and pulling myself up.
I'm working on my muscle ups. I gotta do my oh, I was just listening to to Kyron. I was listening to the Mere Mortals. He was talking about Kyron Down just came back from a handstand retreat, which sounds really interesting. And he was talking about how he, like, he wants to build more muscle as well. And he wants to work on his muscle ups where you where you're, like, hanging on the bar, then you swing upward, and then you push yourself up. Like, that's a muscle up. So he's gotta work on that. I wanna work on that for myself on the rings. You know?
I was really appreciative listening to to the mere mortals today because if for some reason, I just feel like me and Kyron are, like, on a very eerily similar track when it comes to health and fitness. And so, I'm hearing what he's saying. It's like echoing what I'm saying, and and and what I'm trying to do. And my there there has been sadness with my dad's cancer, there has been stress, there has been laziness, along with a little depression, and, like like, frozenness. I'm not even sure if depression is the right way to say it, but it's a frozenness that I feel in in the mornings.
And, you know, just like at other times during the day, you know. Sometimes when I feel like like, it's easy for me to work. Like, when I'm at work, that's like a totally different head space, you know. But when I'm at home, and I'm on my own hour, sometimes I get frozen in whatever the situation is, and then I get distracted. You know, like, I'm on my phone scrolling, and I'm just like, whether it be productive or unproductive, whether it be a podcast or porn. You know? Like, we're just being real here, folks. Like, it's just like it has been a season of holding on to focus of what I used to be, like, super diligent with, like, holding on to that. And I don't like these numbers in front of me.
These legitimate scientific numbers are not in my favor, and I need to change these. I need to change these. And this is coming from the change. It will come from, visualization, dedication. I'm writing down my goals. So that now now now we're in the section of like of like how I'm gonna do it. So I have that goal, £190, and which is like I think it's like 97 kilos, I think. Well, what what is the rate? What is the, what is the transfer pounds? I just looked it up a few days ago. Pounds to kilograms. Pounds to kd. 190 is, whoops. 190 is 86 kilograms. That's what I'm trying to be. I'm trying to be 86 kilograms.
A lean 86 kilos, dude. That's what I want. I wanna be strong, and I wanna be doing the mace, you know. I wanna be doing kettlebell stuff. I'm doing rings. I'm doing clubs. I'm doing, like, calisthenics. You know? I'm doing a lot of push ups. I'm still figuring out the, like, like, what is the specific exercise routine, but I know I gotta lift weights. And back in 2018, I was swimming like a motherfucker. I was swimming like a fish, dude. Like a fish. I gotta get back in the pool. Back in the pool, back doing jump rope, I need to build up my calves, you know, calves are super important for life.
I'm accomplishing this through, through writing down my goals and through visualizing these things and through keeping myself accountable. That's why I'm recording this right now so I can come back to you, you know, at the end of this month or I'm sorry. Oh, at the end of next month, I should say, and see how it goes, you know, or or a few more months. You know? We'll see how long. I'm not I'm not expecting to get to 190 by next month. I'm saying, we'll see how far I am in the process by next month. So I think it's super important. I think it's, like, it's radically important for myself to get to get myself down to a healthy weight. You know, like, is anyone else, like, thinking about this? Are you thinking about your own health? Are you thinking about how fat you are? How skinny you are? How little muscle you have?
You know, like, it's not about I I was listening to this one podcast. It's not about losing weight. It's about gaining muscle. Okay? Are you gaining muscle right now? Because, like, I've been, like, trying to maintain my muscle. And I got, like, some muscle in my arms, but, you know, I want I want more. I want more. Do you know what your numbers are? I would encourage you to get information on your body. Because that's the only way that you can make better choices when you have accurate information. Right? That's the only way we can we can survive longer, is if we have the accurate information. So I'm doing my best, keeping myself accountable, you know. The more I work the more I work out, the more I can work through my emotions.
That was one thing, that was a truth going through 2017 and 2018, when I was at, like, my peak health. I because I was working out so much, I was the most confident. I was, like, I was able to handle things. I was going through, like, heartbreak. I was going through, like, a lot of just a lot of changes. A lot of changes. And exercising and focusing on my health, you know, that was that's what made me my just more confident in my life and able to think about a better future. You know? And I was also eating steak and eggs for lunch every single day. People at when I was working at Warner Brothers, I would bring I would bring in a precooked, precut up steak. Like like, I would cook it in the morning, I would cut up my steak, and then I would cook, like, a but, like, 3 scrambled eggs. And just put it in, like, a little to go, and I would heat that up for lunch every single day.
I was lean, people. I was lean. I was feeling good. I was feeling real good. So maybe I gotta get back on that steak and eggs for lunch bit. I work at a freaking steak house. Do you think they would give me a steak? No. They're giving me the shittiest carbs. They're giving me the worst pasta with the canola. May they might cook me a burger, maybe. And then I'll forget to grab 1. But I just gotta be more conscious about when I'm eating. And I'm not gonna, like, push my diet. I'm not gonna try to, like, talk too much about that. Like, what what what what what I will say is that I'm going heavy protein. I'm adding in more vegetables, and I'm doing less milk.
Okay? I I drink a lot of milk. And what I'm gonna be doing is just, like, keeping the milk from my coffee, and not drinking 4 cups of straight milk a day. I think that's I think that's, that that might be that might be a factor in my in my weight gain. So maybe if I just cut out the milk and just stick to, like, a kefir, like, a very like half a cup, a cup of kefir, Maybe that will help me howl a bit more, but, we'll see, man. It's gonna be, like, a cool experiment. There's a few fasting things that I wanna do as well. I might do a water fast. There's this thing called, like, protein protein fasting or something like that, where you only eat lean protein and veggies, which I don't know how you're supposed I I it makes sense that you lose fat on that.
But, I'm looking through it, and I'm ready to to experiment because the ultimate narrative with with health is what I'm experiencing with my father. You know what? Like, your your health is life or death. And when when you are faced with mortality, you need to be brave enough to make make that right choice. And the right choice for myself is to keep myself accountable and to push myself to grow muscle and to put more effort. To really put effort in my day. Like, I need to be on some Jocko shit. Like, I need to be on some David Goggin shit. Like, I need to get back into this mindset of, like, discipline.
Discipline equals freedom. You know, I've sort of, like, strayed away from that. I've sort of been, like I used to be, like, discipline equals freedom. And then I went into, like, maybe love equals freedom. Maybe something else equals something good. I don't know. Like, I was like, I just drifted away from the discipline thing. And I gotta get back into that, man, because clearly, I my body was healthier for that. And so so let's take what I've learned throughout the years. Let's take all the all the keto stuff, all the exercise stuff, all the mental stuff. Let's take what I have learned, and let's apply it to the stress of my dad's cancer, and at least, giving myself the space to deal with that, because that is the biggest stress in my life.
Giving myself that time to work out those emotions and to expel those thoughts. Because when you have a really good workout, really heavy workout, you're breathing, you're sweating, you're pumping, you're not really thinking about the negativity, you know. And I'm not trying to avoid it, you know. Me scrolling on my phone, that's avoiding shit. Me having a hard ass workout workout is the best thing I can do for my dad. To make sure that I'm in, like, the best spot possible. To make sure I'm not putting myself in a position to have cancer. Like, what other what other position is there, you know?
Like, you gotta do that. And I hope my dad is, like, wanting that. Like, I hope I hope everyone in my family is, like, sort of taking a lesson for their own health. I'm not gonna try to force anything, any certain protocol or routine or exercise. I'm not gonna try to force anything on my family. You know, I just want I I just hope that my family is thinking about similar things as I am. Putting themselves in the best position for their health and their longevity, their life. These are important things. And to be humble enough to put yourself to put your own feet to the fire.
This is radically necessary for a more beautiful world. So that's the value I got, folks. We're gonna head on into the value for value section, everybody. Value, America Plus is a value for value show. What that means oh, wait. Let me do that again. Value for value show. What that means is you reciprocate the value that you're getting from my voice from this episode right now. You can do that in 3 ways, time, talent, treasure, just you hanging out. Thank you so much. The the the treasure part, you know, there's 2 main ways you can send us a PayPal. Send me a PayPal. There's a link down below in the description, or you can send me a boostagram
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That's, like, my favorite way of interacting with, like, with you, with the audience. If you wanna be a part of the community, send me a boostagram on fountain. You're sending, like, a little itty bitty bit of a Bitcoin. It's called a satoshi. And then you can send a message with it. I'm gonna be reading the messages right now, re reading the boostograms. We got 3 of them. 3 people felt like donating, this past week. For the last episode, number 127, I was talking about, what was I talking I was talking about last week, I was talking about clones. I went crazy last week. Talking about how Joe Biden is a clone, bro. I was reading that Cabe from Twitter. I was the the the there's some guy that I get all my conspiracy stuff from. His this guy's wild. Anyway, clones was last week. Kyron Down. Brent comes in with the 1st boostagram of the week with a satchel of Richards. Thank you, Kyron.
1,111 sats. What he has to say is, man, if I had a clone, I'd be doing the opposite. They'd be at home doing chores, and I'd be out kissing babies and partying. Stupid cabal doesn't know how to live. And now, as the French say, it is time for Le Boost. Boosting is loving. Caron down, thank you very much, for that, Sadule of Richards. And, yeah, bro. If I had a clone you know, the let's really think about this. If I had a clone, I would probably just have it go work for me. That's probably what I would do. The next pod, the the next boostagram comes from atpodhomefm.
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that Bill Clinton clip just proves that there is cloning. Right? It's just that I I think it's confirmed. The last one of the week comes in from our friend at Joel w. He sends in his usual 1,111¢. He has now, this is a different vibe. He says, this is some retarded ass Q related bullshit, and the Twitter dude is a con artist. Soros never never ran shit. And Paige ain't ain't running shit either. Dude is a liar.
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you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Joel, that's some hard ass
[00:32:38] Cole McCormick:
that's a hard ass sentence you just sent in, dude. Yeah, man. It could be fake. The guy from Twitter, Cabe, he has talked about Q before, and I am suspicious about that. You know, you gotta be vigilant with everything you read, everything. I'm never gonna just believe something, you know. I was presenting it in a way of, like, I think it's interesting. Maybe it's maybe it's real. Could be real. I sort of think it's real. But you yes. You you bring up a great point, Joel. Like, it it it is some retarded ass queue related bullshit. Like, it like, it it it totally is. So good eye on that, Joel, but we'll see, you know. Like, we'll see, you know. Like, we gotta figure out the truth. We gotta figure out the truth. And then I think Joel, he he replied to my I I commented under it on fountain, and he was like, he might be able to like, Joel would believe a mask on Biden, but he can't believe a clone.
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Hanging on the back of my door. Won't give you my heart. No one lives there anymore. You said we're lovers who we could never be friends. Fascination ends. Here we go again. Oh, oh, because it'll fly
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I'm getting a wee soft. What's up, everyone? It's America Plus. I'm your host, Cole McCormick. It's another week, another episode. What's going on, everybody? It's Sunday, June 23rd, 9:39 in the PM. What's going on, everybody? Happy to be here. Really beautiful day to be alive. Beautiful week. Quick update on me, man. I've been home alone the last week, dude. My girlfriend is in Rome right now. Shout out to Shannon, dude. She's in Rome. She's doing her dream vacay with her mom right now. And so I'm getting all these sick, like, Statue of David pictures. I'm getting all these, like, really cool Venice photos from her. She bought a film cameras, and she's doing, like, these really, like, cool, ektachrome, 35 millimeter still photos. So, like, Shannon is, like, living her best life right now, and I've been home alone like a freaking loser doing nothing. Like, what do I do when I don't have a girlfriend home? I literally do nothing.
I eat. I watch YouTube, I sleep, and then I go to work. That's literally what I've been doing. And the last 4 days have been very eye opening, to 1 to 1 coldy coldy. And, what I wanna share, the the narrative this week, everyone, is, something that is near and dear to my heart. It is my, like, health numbers. Okay? This is very serious, very scary, very scary sit situation. No one likes to go over their health numbers. And this is not from, like, a doctor. This is not blood work. But I have this, like, just like a basic scale that does, like, BMI, body fat percentage, scale to muscle, just like the basic stuff that, like, an Apple Watch does. And I wanna share an evolution of my health since 2022.
Okay? So I've been doing the podcast while these numbers have been changing, and it's my intent to document, how I'm approaching my health. Because, you know, from my perspective, America Plus, a more beautiful world, this involves being healthy. This involves knowing everything you can about using your body, you know? Making sure your body is healthy. And I've been going through a lot of life, and my body has been changing, and I've made certain choices. And so pretty much, like, I like, let's just get into it. So if you're watching the video, I got them up. I have the these images in the chapters as well. The photo on the left, this is from 2018.
Okay? The photo on the right, it is from today, this morning, June 23, 2024. There's a big difference. Okay? The first thing the the biggest thing, in 2018, I was £171. This year, right now, today, I'm 215. Woah, bro. That's crazy. Now you might not think that's, like, too bad. Maybe, like, it it could be worse, but it has been, like, major weight gain. I do lift weights. A lot of it's muscle, which is pretty, like, it's okay. You know? Like, that's an okay number for me. It's not the best number. My intention with sharing these numbers is not to complain or anything. It's to just be transparent with how I'm thinking and what I want for, like, my life and how I can, like, best approach that. You know? So I don't care about the BMI. The BMI number is, like it's already telling me I'm overweight, so who cares about that? Like, I already don't like my body. I already grew up not liking my body. So, like, let's just figure out a way to love it, the best way to be healthy.
The body fat percentage. This is the most important number in my eyes right now, in in my current era of life. In 2018, I was 11% body fat, 11.6. And in 2024, I'm 16%, dude. 16% of my body is fat. And it used to be 11%. Of course, I was lighter. I had less weight on me, absolutely, but 16%. Like and if you look at me, like, if you look at my Instagram, like, dude, like, papa's getting a belly. Like, this is this is not something I'm proud of. This is not something that I really wanna, like like, share. You know? Like, I'm not self conscious about taking off my shirt when I go to the beach to do the beach workouts. But I am aware that I am, like, the only one.
Like, I'm one of the few guys at Muscle Beach with a gut. You know, like, with with some sort of belly situation going on. Everyone else hat is like shredded. Everyone else has 6 packs. Everyone else is, you know, doing as many pull ups as they can. They're doing core. They're thin. They're hot. They should be working at 2 PM, but they're at the beach. Where are they? Where am I? And, I just looking at this number 16%, like, of course, like, I'm like the fat like, that that that's like fat. In terms of healthy people, that's like fat fat, in terms of healthy people.
Now, here's the interesting number. Fat free body weight is 151 in 2018. In 2024, I'm 180. So I've gained £30 of fat free, and then my muscle mass has gone up as well. I won't go through all these numbers. I'm just going through, like, my, like, my most, like, interested. In 2018, my muscle mass was 144. This year, I'm it it's 171. So the good news, throughout these last, like, what is it? 8 years? 2018? I don't know. 6 years? In the last 6 years, I have gained muscle, which is amazing. But the bad news is that I've gained more fat. My now, the here's, like, the last number I'll share. The versoral fat. The fat or I'm sorry, visceral. Viceral fat is, that's the the fat around your gut. That's like your belly fat, the the fat around your intestines.
In 2018, my number was they measure it with just like a single number. The number for the cereal fat was 5. And the number for this year is 11, dude. 11. So, unequivocally, I have gained fat. And today, you know, it was just a big, like, wake up call, just being home alone, looking at these numbers by myself, thinking about my my habits. And this is the next section I wanna go into, like like, what are my habits? Now that I have these numbers and this information, what does this imply about my past habits? And to be totally radical real, you know, I, you could probably already guess this. Like, I haven't been that active.
I've been the last year specifically, I've gained the most weight this like, within the last year for since last June, I've gained a lot of weight. I've gained, like, 10 extra pounds. There was another, like, like, moment when I gained, like, another £10, and that was that was in 2022 when I started drinking raw milk. I was weighing 180 in 2022. I start drinking raw milk, and my my weight shot up. Like, literally, shot up within a few months till 197 or something, 194. And so I gained weight from raw milk, and then I gained more weight in the last year due to stress from my dad's cancer. And now we're here. And if and I'm thinking through the last 2 years. Okay? So the last 2 years, I started drinking raw milk.
I got a new job, and I started working out less. And that's been, like, the hardest thing to do, to, like, balance out. Like, I I I don't know why, you know? I I don't have an excuse. But when it comes to lifting, working out in the last year and a half, it's been met with a lot more laziness and a lot more not doing anything. A lot more just sleeping or a lot more just avoiding it or wasting time meandering around the apartment. And sometimes, on the days that I'm working, I usually gotta roll it in into the kitchen around, like, I don't know, 9, 9:30. And it's gonna take me, like, 30 minutes to drive to work. And so I gotta wake up, like, I need to wake up earlier and earlier, you know, to if I wanna have a good workout.
And I set the alarm, and I lay in bed awake, and I think about working out, and I think about breathing, and I think about doing this, and I think about doing that. And then I don't do it. Before I know, another, like, freaking an hour has passed, and it and I've just been thinking. Like, how annoying is that? I've just been thinking for the last hour and a half. And I I was thinking about working out, but I didn't really work out. What kind of a neuro neurodical fucking Woody Allen bullshit is that, dude? Like, I'm too in my head. Like, there's moments when I am way too in my head.
And so I need to change that pattern. And it's good that I'm aware of these things. And when I would work out, you know, I've gotten in a pattern of working out on an off day when I don't have work. And then when I do work out, it's like sometimes, like, a little lazy. It's like a lazy workout. I do, like, a few good reps. I do a few good sets. And then I, like, am just, like, lazy for, like, 5 minutes. And then, oh, I gotta do it again. Let's let's try to do it again. I do, like, one set. I hang out for another 5 minutes. Like, it's just like a lazy bullshit workout. And then I'm standing there for, like, an hour. Like, okay. Well, it's been an hour. Okay. I think I've done it off. But in reality, I barely got a sweat, I barely got a pump, and I'm leaving that area. I'm leaving that workout space, whether it be my, like, my yoga mat, or the park, or, the gym, whatever.
I'm leaving not feeling good. Like, how insane is that? How am I gonna go to an area to and have an intention and barely do anything about it? That's so not America plus. And so I'm just doing my best to practice what I preach, being open with my numbers, and being you know, committing myself to consistency for my body, you know. And if you if you look at me in life, you know, like, I don't think anyone really think that I'm, like, unhealthy, You know? And I'm not trying to say that. I'm not a victim of anything. I'm not I'm not trying to, you know, promote any sort of diet culture or promote any unhealthy habits.
But what I am saying is, I've seen in myself, not the best effort. I have not seen the best actions for myself when it comes to my health and my exercising routines. There's been an increase, like, a positive increase in other areas, like my meditation, and my, like, work ethic for the podcast, and video, and stuff like that. So, like, I've been succeeding in some areas in my life, and I've been getting more consistent and better. But, unfortunately, my health and my exercise, which is sort of like my core, you know, that's sort of like my origin story.
My like like, thinking about changing my body is literally my origin story. When I was in the 7th grade, I was overweight. I was 195, and I noticed that I was drinking a lot of soda. We would go to Olive Garden, and I would get, like, a glass of Sprite. And then I would suck that that glass of Sprite down so fast, they would bring me another and then another. And then at one point, it got to where the restaurant would bring over a pitcher of Sprite for me. A pitcher. And I was like, this is not normal. Like, I knew this when I was a kid. Like, I'm I'm pouring the glass with Sprite with my own pitcher. I'm like, I don't think this is normal. I think this isn't right. Like, what's going on here?
And I made the choice to stop drinking soda. And I lost £30. Like, I I I legit lost £30 just from not drinking soda. And and and I told myself when I was a kid, I was like, wow. Like, I really have control over my body. Like, I need to do more of this. Like, I need to exercise more. I need to do everything I can to do that. And it's been ebbs and flows, you know. Like, I have others other eras in my life when I've been depressed, and I've been sad, and stressed, and not doing my best. You know, there's another season in my life when just getting out of high school, not working out enough. For some reason, I okay. So my my my senior year, coming coming back from from Christmas break, seniors had the option to, like, take away a class. You know? To have, like, less school, towards the the end of the year.
And my last class like, you so you're you were able to to just, like, erase your your the the final class of the day, and you and you leave early. My final class was gym. And I was like, yeah, you know, I wanna go home early. And I just crossed it off. I didn't showed up to gym. I just left gym. It just didn't work out anymore. Meanwhile, all my friends are there, or most of my friends at least. Or some of them are, like, working out earlier in the day. Like, why did I leave gym? But I did. Gym. Like, gym from the office. Why did I leave the gym in high school? Still sort of a mystery. I was sad. I was depressed. I was lonely.
And I gained a bunch of weight. And then I went through a process through, through, like, early adulthood, like, you know, like, 18, 19 years old, 20 years old. I'm, like, change my my my life is being changed when I'm in 2017, and I finally lose a bunch of weight. And then we get into this 100 this 171 number. This this £171 Cole McCormack in 2018. This is like a golden number. This this £171, this represents like a winning mentality for me. This represents a time in my life when I really took charge, and I was inspired to be the best version of myself.
And I was coming clean off of a mushroom trip, a bunch of mushroom trips, moved out to LA that same era. You know, like, I'm on my own. I'm an adult. I'm paying for my own shit. I got a job. Like, I'm out here. I'm running. I'm doing it. And then, you know, just like more life happens. You know, I'm not gonna like, nothing around me is like is like the problem. You know? Like, it's it's always like, this weight gain is a reaction to the things in my life. You know? So I'm I'm definitely not trying to hate on myself, which I have done in the past. And I think there I I think maybe a lot of people might do that with their own weight, you know, if you struggle with weight.
As I look at these numbers, I then ask myself, what can I do? What will I do? What are we manifesting? Like, how are we making this better? What is the path to success and what does success look like? So here are my goals. I have some new body goals, some new weight goals. I'm 2 15 now. I'm 16% body fat. I would love to be 190 at a pretty solid 11% body fat. 190 at 11% body fat. I think I'll be very lean. I wanna build muscle. I wanna build more muscle. So maybe my my my muscle mass can increase, like like £10 possibly, maybe. Maybe I can lose £20, gain £10 of muscle. I don't know. I would love to see the Versal fat go back down into to to 5.
But the body fat percentage is really what I'm looking at. I want that shit to be down to 11, and I want my weight to be at 190, and I want more muscle. I just wanna build more muscle. I wanna be shredded. I wanna have proper just like you know, I work out at the beach. I should look like I work out at the beach. You know? Like, I live in California. I'm the health guy. I I wanna be the health guy. I talk about health. Like, I should look healthy even though, like, I do. But, like, I don't. I don't. But that's my goal. That's what I'm committing myself to. So I'm I've already been like, I'm always on, like, a health kick. You know, I'm always looking at some health podcast. I'm always listening to to different people. I was listening to Saladino for a while. I listened to Joe Rogan for a while. I listened to Mark Sisson for a while. Listening to keto like, ketogenic people for a long time.
And, now I'm on the on this, like, protein kick, you know, and, like, just figuring out, like, how how important protein is, how important, muscle is. A muscle centric, like, health outlook is super important. That's how you live longer with more muscle. So it's a new vibe for me right now, and I am going to the beach more often, doing those workouts. The workouts that I do at the beach, you know, I'm on these Olympic rings, I'm I'm getting stronger in my shoulders, dangling myself, like, like, hanging just like hanging like a monkey, and pulling myself up.
I'm working on my muscle ups. I gotta do my oh, I was just listening to to Kyron. I was listening to the Mere Mortals. He was talking about Kyron Down just came back from a handstand retreat, which sounds really interesting. And he was talking about how he, like, he wants to build more muscle as well. And he wants to work on his muscle ups where you where you're, like, hanging on the bar, then you swing upward, and then you push yourself up. Like, that's a muscle up. So he's gotta work on that. I wanna work on that for myself on the rings. You know?
I was really appreciative listening to to the mere mortals today because if for some reason, I just feel like me and Kyron are, like, on a very eerily similar track when it comes to health and fitness. And so, I'm hearing what he's saying. It's like echoing what I'm saying, and and and what I'm trying to do. And my there there has been sadness with my dad's cancer, there has been stress, there has been laziness, along with a little depression, and, like like, frozenness. I'm not even sure if depression is the right way to say it, but it's a frozenness that I feel in in the mornings.
And, you know, just like at other times during the day, you know. Sometimes when I feel like like, it's easy for me to work. Like, when I'm at work, that's like a totally different head space, you know. But when I'm at home, and I'm on my own hour, sometimes I get frozen in whatever the situation is, and then I get distracted. You know, like, I'm on my phone scrolling, and I'm just like, whether it be productive or unproductive, whether it be a podcast or porn. You know? Like, we're just being real here, folks. Like, it's just like it has been a season of holding on to focus of what I used to be, like, super diligent with, like, holding on to that. And I don't like these numbers in front of me.
These legitimate scientific numbers are not in my favor, and I need to change these. I need to change these. And this is coming from the change. It will come from, visualization, dedication. I'm writing down my goals. So that now now now we're in the section of like of like how I'm gonna do it. So I have that goal, £190, and which is like I think it's like 97 kilos, I think. Well, what what is the rate? What is the, what is the transfer pounds? I just looked it up a few days ago. Pounds to kilograms. Pounds to kd. 190 is, whoops. 190 is 86 kilograms. That's what I'm trying to be. I'm trying to be 86 kilograms.
A lean 86 kilos, dude. That's what I want. I wanna be strong, and I wanna be doing the mace, you know. I wanna be doing kettlebell stuff. I'm doing rings. I'm doing clubs. I'm doing, like, calisthenics. You know? I'm doing a lot of push ups. I'm still figuring out the, like, like, what is the specific exercise routine, but I know I gotta lift weights. And back in 2018, I was swimming like a motherfucker. I was swimming like a fish, dude. Like a fish. I gotta get back in the pool. Back in the pool, back doing jump rope, I need to build up my calves, you know, calves are super important for life.
I'm accomplishing this through, through writing down my goals and through visualizing these things and through keeping myself accountable. That's why I'm recording this right now so I can come back to you, you know, at the end of this month or I'm sorry. Oh, at the end of next month, I should say, and see how it goes, you know, or or a few more months. You know? We'll see how long. I'm not I'm not expecting to get to 190 by next month. I'm saying, we'll see how far I am in the process by next month. So I think it's super important. I think it's, like, it's radically important for myself to get to get myself down to a healthy weight. You know, like, is anyone else, like, thinking about this? Are you thinking about your own health? Are you thinking about how fat you are? How skinny you are? How little muscle you have?
You know, like, it's not about I I was listening to this one podcast. It's not about losing weight. It's about gaining muscle. Okay? Are you gaining muscle right now? Because, like, I've been, like, trying to maintain my muscle. And I got, like, some muscle in my arms, but, you know, I want I want more. I want more. Do you know what your numbers are? I would encourage you to get information on your body. Because that's the only way that you can make better choices when you have accurate information. Right? That's the only way we can we can survive longer, is if we have the accurate information. So I'm doing my best, keeping myself accountable, you know. The more I work the more I work out, the more I can work through my emotions.
That was one thing, that was a truth going through 2017 and 2018, when I was at, like, my peak health. I because I was working out so much, I was the most confident. I was, like, I was able to handle things. I was going through, like, heartbreak. I was going through, like, a lot of just a lot of changes. A lot of changes. And exercising and focusing on my health, you know, that was that's what made me my just more confident in my life and able to think about a better future. You know? And I was also eating steak and eggs for lunch every single day. People at when I was working at Warner Brothers, I would bring I would bring in a precooked, precut up steak. Like like, I would cook it in the morning, I would cut up my steak, and then I would cook, like, a but, like, 3 scrambled eggs. And just put it in, like, a little to go, and I would heat that up for lunch every single day.
I was lean, people. I was lean. I was feeling good. I was feeling real good. So maybe I gotta get back on that steak and eggs for lunch bit. I work at a freaking steak house. Do you think they would give me a steak? No. They're giving me the shittiest carbs. They're giving me the worst pasta with the canola. May they might cook me a burger, maybe. And then I'll forget to grab 1. But I just gotta be more conscious about when I'm eating. And I'm not gonna, like, push my diet. I'm not gonna try to, like, talk too much about that. Like, what what what what what I will say is that I'm going heavy protein. I'm adding in more vegetables, and I'm doing less milk.
Okay? I I drink a lot of milk. And what I'm gonna be doing is just, like, keeping the milk from my coffee, and not drinking 4 cups of straight milk a day. I think that's I think that's, that that might be that might be a factor in my in my weight gain. So maybe if I just cut out the milk and just stick to, like, a kefir, like, a very like half a cup, a cup of kefir, Maybe that will help me howl a bit more, but, we'll see, man. It's gonna be, like, a cool experiment. There's a few fasting things that I wanna do as well. I might do a water fast. There's this thing called, like, protein protein fasting or something like that, where you only eat lean protein and veggies, which I don't know how you're supposed I I it makes sense that you lose fat on that.
But, I'm looking through it, and I'm ready to to experiment because the ultimate narrative with with health is what I'm experiencing with my father. You know what? Like, your your health is life or death. And when when you are faced with mortality, you need to be brave enough to make make that right choice. And the right choice for myself is to keep myself accountable and to push myself to grow muscle and to put more effort. To really put effort in my day. Like, I need to be on some Jocko shit. Like, I need to be on some David Goggin shit. Like, I need to get back into this mindset of, like, discipline.
Discipline equals freedom. You know, I've sort of, like, strayed away from that. I've sort of been, like I used to be, like, discipline equals freedom. And then I went into, like, maybe love equals freedom. Maybe something else equals something good. I don't know. Like, I was like, I just drifted away from the discipline thing. And I gotta get back into that, man, because clearly, I my body was healthier for that. And so so let's take what I've learned throughout the years. Let's take all the all the keto stuff, all the exercise stuff, all the mental stuff. Let's take what I have learned, and let's apply it to the stress of my dad's cancer, and at least, giving myself the space to deal with that, because that is the biggest stress in my life.
Giving myself that time to work out those emotions and to expel those thoughts. Because when you have a really good workout, really heavy workout, you're breathing, you're sweating, you're pumping, you're not really thinking about the negativity, you know. And I'm not trying to avoid it, you know. Me scrolling on my phone, that's avoiding shit. Me having a hard ass workout workout is the best thing I can do for my dad. To make sure that I'm in, like, the best spot possible. To make sure I'm not putting myself in a position to have cancer. Like, what other what other position is there, you know?
Like, you gotta do that. And I hope my dad is, like, wanting that. Like, I hope I hope everyone in my family is, like, sort of taking a lesson for their own health. I'm not gonna try to force anything, any certain protocol or routine or exercise. I'm not gonna try to force anything on my family. You know, I just want I I just hope that my family is thinking about similar things as I am. Putting themselves in the best position for their health and their longevity, their life. These are important things. And to be humble enough to put yourself to put your own feet to the fire.
This is radically necessary for a more beautiful world. So that's the value I got, folks. We're gonna head on into the value for value section, everybody. Value, America Plus is a value for value show. What that means oh, wait. Let me do that again. Value for value show. What that means is you reciprocate the value that you're getting from my voice from this episode right now. You can do that in 3 ways, time, talent, treasure, just you hanging out. Thank you so much. The the the treasure part, you know, there's 2 main ways you can send us a PayPal. Send me a PayPal. There's a link down below in the description, or you can send me a boostagram
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That's, like, my favorite way of interacting with, like, with you, with the audience. If you wanna be a part of the community, send me a boostagram on fountain. You're sending, like, a little itty bitty bit of a Bitcoin. It's called a satoshi. And then you can send a message with it. I'm gonna be reading the messages right now, re reading the boostograms. We got 3 of them. 3 people felt like donating, this past week. For the last episode, number 127, I was talking about, what was I talking I was talking about last week, I was talking about clones. I went crazy last week. Talking about how Joe Biden is a clone, bro. I was reading that Cabe from Twitter. I was the the the there's some guy that I get all my conspiracy stuff from. His this guy's wild. Anyway, clones was last week. Kyron Down. Brent comes in with the 1st boostagram of the week with a satchel of Richards. Thank you, Kyron.
1,111 sats. What he has to say is, man, if I had a clone, I'd be doing the opposite. They'd be at home doing chores, and I'd be out kissing babies and partying. Stupid cabal doesn't know how to live. And now, as the French say, it is time for Le Boost. Boosting is loving. Caron down, thank you very much, for that, Sadule of Richards. And, yeah, bro. If I had a clone you know, the let's really think about this. If I had a clone, I would probably just have it go work for me. That's probably what I would do. The next pod, the the next boostagram comes from atpodhomefm.
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Boost. It's basically, you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Yeah, Barry. Dude,
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that Bill Clinton clip just proves that there is cloning. Right? It's just that I I think it's confirmed. The last one of the week comes in from our friend at Joel w. He sends in his usual 1,111¢. He has now, this is a different vibe. He says, this is some retarded ass Q related bullshit, and the Twitter dude is a con artist. Soros never never ran shit. And Paige ain't ain't running shit either. Dude is a liar.
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Woah. Boosting is loving. Basically,
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you put Bitcoin with anything, and all of a sudden, that is more efficient. Joel, that's some hard ass
[00:32:38] Cole McCormick:
that's a hard ass sentence you just sent in, dude. Yeah, man. It could be fake. The guy from Twitter, Cabe, he has talked about Q before, and I am suspicious about that. You know, you gotta be vigilant with everything you read, everything. I'm never gonna just believe something, you know. I was presenting it in a way of, like, I think it's interesting. Maybe it's maybe it's real. Could be real. I sort of think it's real. But you yes. You you bring up a great point, Joel. Like, it it it is some retarded ass queue related bullshit. Like, it like, it it it totally is. So good eye on that, Joel, but we'll see, you know. Like, we'll see, you know. Like, we gotta figure out the truth. We gotta figure out the truth. And then I think Joel, he he replied to my I I commented under it on fountain, and he was like, he might be able to like, Joel would believe a mask on Biden, but he can't believe a clone.
And I'm on the other end. Like, I'm more willing to believe a clone than I am a mask. So whatever, Joel. Like, it's cool. It's cool. Those are the people who wanna donate. Shout out to all those people who wanted to chime on in with the value for value. Again, download the fountain.fm app. It's the best podcasting app ever. It's a modern podcast app. Send me a boostagram. If you wanna support me with PayPal, all this money, like, I'm stacking stats. I'm paying for the for the hosting site, and I'm building my name online. If you wanna support me making more creative things to help this podcast get better, better microphones, I'm doing documentaries, I'm doing a raw milk doc. I gotta pay for traveling for that. You know, like, I'm building a brand and a name for myself.
And the purpose for donating is for you to help grow this. You know, it's all in the process. But and I'm confident that this is actually gonna this is gonna benefit me. It's gonna benefit people. That's what I want. I want America Plus to benefit people. It's a good vibe, dude. It's a good vibe. Let's play a song, dude. Let's play a song. So every day, every week, America Plus wraps up with a song, and the artist gets 60% if you're if you don't listen to any other, like, value for value podcast, what I just said is, I'm able to play a song on my show, and the artist has a Bitcoin wallet attached to their song, I give them a split of money when I play their song. And so what that means is, when you send in a boostagram when the song is playing, the artist is gonna get 60% of that satoshi donation.
And that is one of the biggest innovations with value for value in podcasting 2.0. We get the artist paid here. Okay? And, we're gonna party it up, with a, with a really good song I heard on the Sidestream music podcast. This band is called Rubber Factory Records. I've played a few of their songs before. It's Rubber Factory Records from their album Cover, not in love, and they're getting 60%. Ladies and gentlemen, Rubber Factory Records, not in love. Enjoy.
[00:36:04] Unknown:
Hanging on the back of my door. Won't give you my heart. No one lives there anymore. You said we're lovers who we could never be friends. Fascination ends. Here we go again. Oh, oh, because it'll fly
[00:37:08] Cole McCormick:
in control.
[00:37:11] Unknown:
He said we're lovers. We could never be friends. Fascination ends. Here we go again.
[00:39:54] Cole McCormick:
That's America Plus, bitch. Stay free.
