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Vault: Motivation By Humiliation - We're Holding These Listeners Accountable

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Vault: Motivation By Humiliation - We're Holding These Listeners Accountable

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0:00.0

Get it. The Bird Show. Here's the offer we want to make to you guys, and we're not sure that any of you are really bold enough or brave enough to take it. But it is the 2008 version of motivation by humiliation. We're now in the time of New Year's resolutions. I saw it at the gym on Saturday. Oh, yeah. I mean, Delvet says this fast Twitch Twitch class, and there's normally like seven or eight people in there, busting their ass, right? But here it is Saturday morning, and the class is full. There's 25 people in there, right? And I even said to him, how can you tell it's New Year's, it's New Year's? And he laughed at him and he looked around the room. There's 30 people, and everybody's like wants to lose weight right now right gyms are packed right don't sweat it by february first we'll be back to the

0:41.0

regular population right here's the offer we want to make to you guys if you have been struggling with

0:47.6

a new year's resolution i mean for years and it doesn't have to be weight loss it doesn't have to be

0:52.2

weight but i think that's the the most common example we could probably use.

0:56.4

Let's say eight years ago, you made the resolution that you were going to lose 50 pounds.

1:02.8

And you started out pretty strong there in January.

1:05.3

And then February came around and you fell right back in your same eating patterns and you didn't lose the weight that year.

1:27.8

And I'm only using weight as this example, but it can, like Jeff said, apply to anything. So then the next year you're like, you know what, I didn't lose the 50 last year. This is going to be it. So maybe you did something to put a little bit more pressure on yourself. Maybe you told your husband. Maybe you told your husband what your resolution was.

1:30.9

So you put a little more pressure on yourself to make it happen.

1:34.5

Then by February 1st again in 2001, you let it go.

1:39.2

Then you did the same thing the year after that and a year after that and a year after that.

1:41.2

And it has never gotten done.

1:43.1

Here's what we want to do.

1:51.6

We want to motivate you by humiliating you if you do not conquer your New Year's resolution this year.

2:03.6

And we've hired a professional tattooist that is willing to tattoo you if you don't do your resolution with something that basically says, I couldn't fulfill my resolution.

2:05.6

So if it's losing weight, you will get a tattoo that says, I couldn't lose the weight.

2:10.6

I couldn't lose the weight.

2:11.6

What are some of the other ones?

2:12.6

I mean, you talk about shocking your system into making a decision to absolutely do what it is that you have been putting off for years and years and years.

2:24.5

You are permanently stating publicly that I will get the ink on my arm or wherever that says I could not do this.

2:31.5

I will get a new job.

2:33.0

There you go.

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