Last year I went 100% plant-based and I didn't just roll out of bed and decided I would do it.

This guy here on the right who can be pretty mean and nasty is named John Joseph and John is the lead singer of the hardcore punk band, The Kromags, who were pretty infamous in New York City in the 80s and the 90s and they still tour today.

And John has been plant-based for some 30-plus years.

He was a Hari-Krishna monk,

and he's also been running Iron Man Triatholons

for 10 years.

So he's done like 10 or 11, full Iron Man. And he was a guest in my in my show here in the

studio about two years ago and afterwards he got in touch with me and said

Brian I want you to come to New York City and I got something planned for you.

So I went to New York and wasn't quite sure what to do.

And John said, look, I want you to run this Iron Man 70.3 race that's coming up.

And I was like, I don't don't know John this sounds kind of

whack and he said I want you to try to do it and I want you to do it on a hundred

percent plant-based diet and once you get pushed a little by John I

decided to take him up on it we went through through a crazy journey. I highly recommend watching this movie. I went to some darkness, went back into my addiction past and my overdoses in my life. It's a long story. But I went 100% plant-based all of 2018.

At first it was difficult I wasn't eaten enough but in the end I ran

an Iron Man 70.3 triathlon which was no joke on a 100% plant-based diet at 47 years of age and I didn't get injured and I felt good and I was powered to the end.

So that was impressive and I decided I would finish the year out

on a plant-based diet, and I did.

But come Jan one this year, I said to myself,

Brian, are you doing this for the right reasons?

Are you doing this because you're just dogmatic?

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