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This episode deals with body image issues, mental health, and large quantities of raw meat. Listen with care.

Sachi, I know you go to the gym, but I'm wondering if you've ever gotten into one of those FAD workouts slash diets in your time as a gym rat?

A terrible truth about my Florida mental health nightmare is that I have done every diet. I have done every FAD workout, every FAD diet. I've tried them all. That's why I know they don't work.

Well, I haven't because I'm too scared and too lazy to really be consistent with anything. But as you know, it can be a really easy thing to fall into.

And I'm about to tell you a story of a truly crazy fitness and lifestyle influencer who inspired a ton of dudes to go back to their ancestral roots. And that meant eating a ton of raw meat.

Okay, Sachi, I'm going to start by showing you an Instagram video from November 2022.

In the video, there's a guy sitting on a stool in the Mongolian forest. He's got piercing blue eyes and a super burly beard. Snow falls all around him. And yet, he's wearing a t-shirt.

But what's most shocking is what the man's holding. You got to check this out. Okay, so he is a big beef cake. He's sitting in what looks like quite cold weather, wearing a t-shirt and like really bad army fatigues.

And he is housing a piece of liver the size of a toddler.

Yeah, it is very much caveman energy. And this guy actually goes by the name liver king.

But behind the blood and the beard is a man with an entire social media team. He doesn't actually live in this wilderness.

At some point, after finishing this video, he'll fly back to Texas, possibly on a private jet, where he lives in a sprawling 8,000 square foot mansion with a souped up pickup truck in the driveway and a personal chef cooking in the kitchen.

He even has a steam sauna and a hyperbaric chamber. He's built an empire by showing his fans how to live by his code inspired by ancient hunter gatherers, one tick talk at a time.

When it comes to living like a caveman, liver king knows all. But what he doesn't know is that at this exact moment, his enemies are planning a siege.

It's not a threat from an invading army or an attack by land or sea. It's the most modern threat of all. A YouTube video.

From wondering, I'm Sarah Haggy and I'm Sachi Cole. And this is scamful answers.

Liver king wanted his followers to believe his extreme diet and lifestyle were leading to some serious gains. And those gains weren't just physical, liver king wanted to call attention to how many men struggle with their mental health.

But behind all the raw meat and cold plunges, liver king was succumbing to the same pressures he was trying to fight. Pressures that forced him to start living a lie.

This is... Do you even grift, bro?

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