How Much Protein Do You Need?

RP Strength Podcast

Dr. Mike Israetel, Nick Shaw

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 582 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:40 Everything was illegal in the Soviet Union

3:40 Fake Xmas trees

7:05 Mike doesn't do gifts

9:49 Protein controversy

15:15 Our recommendation explained

26:00 Simplicity

33:53 FDA guidelines

43:33 The upper end of protein consumption

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to the RP Strength podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Nick Shaw joined by Dr. Mike wearing a no one can see this, but super heavy smash
0:11.6	bros.
0:13.0	Oh, laudezsche shirt from Angie and Josh Vogel at the juice company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
0:20.0	Awesome.
0:37.7	What time, man, how are you? Happy holidays. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Why don't you say Merry Christmas? You're Jewish. Am I, though? Is that offensive? I don't know. Fuck. Actually, my wife and I need to go get a tree. I grew up celebrating. I don't know if people hear this story before, sorry, but real quick.
0:41.5	In the Soviet Union where I grew up until I was seven,
0:43.2	you know the many wonderful moments of my childhood.
0:47.7	Your religion was functionally illegal. Being Jewish was for sure illegal.
0:51.0	And I didn't even know what Hanukkah was.
0:54.1	We had no Jewish traditions. We just knew we were ethnically Jewish.
1:00.9	And Christmas was illegal, but since you can't take Christmas away from the Russian people,
1:02.3	because they're almost all Christian Orthodox.
1:03.8	They would rebel en masse.
1:08.2	The communists put all the traditions of Christmas, minus everything supernatural,
1:12.8	into, well, sorry, minus anything Christianity related, onto New Year's.
1:17.2	So Santa Claus would come on New Year's Eve, and there was a tree, there were Christmas presents, kids loved them.
1:18.6	Also, there's just one tiny advantage to the Soviet rendition of Christmas.
1:23.5	Santa had, I think, I believe his niece was with him to deliver presents.
1:28.3	Her name is Snigurikka, which means snowflake.
1:31.4	And she could fucking get it, Nick.
1:33.8	She was, she had it.
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