Welcome, everyone, to the R.B. String podcast. I am Nick Shaw and joined by Dr. Mike. What's up, man?

What's up, Nick? How are you? I am, well, I guess if you could say. Are you living your best life or some fraction of your best life?

That's a really interesting question to answer when you're a bodybuilder because like you

love what you do, but at some point you just, you're like, yeah, this sucks.

But it's weird, right?

Because it sucks, but you like it.

You're like, well, this is fun, but it sucks.

Especially a tail end of a fat loss diet. Yeah. Where are you with your diet now? What's coming up for you?

Well, I'm just pretty much in the home stretch because I might actually do a sooner show. So I might technically be from recording this right now, like three weeks out. And then the show that we were originally both going to do, like five and a half. That one's like five and a half weeks. Yeah, something like that. So, you know, three is the real deal because you're like, oh, oh, shit, okay. Five and a half is still like, oh, that's a pretty good time away. And it's still like over a month. Sure. Three is like, oh, okay. Five and a half is still like, oh, that's a pretty good time away. It's still like over a month.

Sure. Three is like, oh, okay. Yeah, it's right around the corner. Literally right around the corner.

Yeah. So I feel like that three week mark is really the interesting mark because you're not close enough yet where you can be like, yeah, it's like it's here.

But fuck. You need to start

getting your ducks in a row kind of time. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I've already got like travel and stuff

planned. And dude, shout out to the Teamful ROM group because there's going to be a guy picking

me up at the airport that I met through Teamful ROM. You work with Jared and all that stuff?

Tony.

Well, well, well, Mr. Nick Shaw, getting the VIP treatment. What a surprise. Because I was like, hey, dude, how close you lived to the airport? He's like, oh, about 10, 50 minutes. I'm like, dude, can you pick me up and just go to the grocery store? And then, like, from there, like, I'm good. the hotel's like you know so what you really said was like hey man I'm too important to drive myself home from the airport

why don't you debase yourself and come get me and he instantly quit his career in order to just

pick you up from the airport I dude I don't I don't, I'm not rent a car, obviously. That's crazy. It's a lot. In New York City, like, F that. But, you know, whatever, I'll get an Uber on the way back. But because it's like, I don't want to get an Uber from Newark and then, like, go to a grocery store in New York City. And then, like, it's that's just, you know, if you got someone that knows the area, I mean, ironically enough, I lived in that area for six years. But yeah, not quite that same area. But anyways, man, so this is part three. So we've done two other podcasts, how to grow up muscle and get jacked, talked a lot about training the first two episodes.

And we kept saying, all right, let's tie it all together.

Let's go over nutrition, how it all relates.

And, you know, you and I can get chatting quite a bit.

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