We are back. It is a duo episode. And don't despair individuals. When we have a duo episode,

it's not because we didn't have any guests. It is because we are the own guests, the only

guests that really matter on our own podcast. Welcome to the only fitness, fatness podcast that

matters. I'm joined with my illustrious co-owner, Urqu. How you doing? Happy to be here. Thanks for introducing

me, my fellow co-owner. That's all I got to say. If you have much of personality, I just make

my desk go up and down. Hey, look, all I got to say is that, is that you trying to off

these gate for a lack of personality or is that you

emphasizing your innate personality? That's what we're talking about in today's

episode because this is a banter-filled episode. There will be virtually no knowledge. We may

have said something along the lines of periodization for hypertrophy. We got you. Congratulations.

You're a sucker.

Primarily going to be discussing nealism, 80s rom-coms, and perhaps our favorite bubblegum.

Ooh. Yeah. But you know, I will say I'm all out of bubblegum, so I'm here to kick ass.

And if you want an 80s rom-com, when Harry met Sally, or Moonstruck is another great one,

I'll go with that.

If we're talking about nihilism, just to wrap up this episode, I will say that we're fighting against the void here on Iron Culture, as always, because there is a danger to be serious

for a second, because I would say, Eric, that to be serious all the time implies that it excludes playfulness.

But playfulness, on the other hand, if you want to know a bit about my personality, the concept of play, does not exclude being serious.

You could be serious, you could be playful and serious, but if your default position is to be serious, then maybe you're a little uptight.

And that's what Iron Culture, we're exploring here, the void, we're trying to avoid in the void being too reductionist. I think

individuals sometimes, we want concrete, neat answers to fill our paradigm. And that's what we

actually want to avoid in this conversation. We want to have a robust conversation that's far-ranging

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