*PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 18: Beasting It

Yeah, and speaking of talking about things for 20 minutes before we start talking about Evangelion, we do a thing here called the Rich Piana Memorial Wellness Corner.

No cheese, no salsa,

no nothing.

Tastes like shit.

Tastes like shit.

Like fucking motherfuckers.

Fucking shit.

But you know, there's two things that this segment and Evan Gillian have in common.

And that is, every time I watch an episode of Evan Gillian, I always watch the intro.

And every time we do the Rich Piano Memorial Wellness corner, I always fucking laugh at the intro.

We've been doing it for so long now.

It's so stupid.

Like, it's one of the stupidest things.

This and the ass.gif hat are probably the stupidest things I've ever made for this show.

It makes me happy.

So, for my wellness corner this month, I have a few things.

Some people remember that I got into Warhammer 40k miniatures.

I still am.

I am now painting them.

Fun fact, I suck at painting.

I am really, really bad at painting, but that's not what I'm doing it for.

I went into this knowing I would be dog shit painting.

I have very shaky hands due to nerve damage.

So like

doing anything within the lines is just so far beyond my capability.

But it's so much fun.

I mean, when your hands are the size of a broadside of a barn, I could imagine you lacked a dexterous skill to paint small men.

Yeah, yeah.

And like that, even if they weren't shaking, I was going to have a really hard time.

But I'm almost done.

It's still like I'm having a fucking blast.

I look forward to playing my first game.

And oh, Gundam update in today's wellness corner.

A Gundam trading card game has been released.

Thanks to the Discord for telling me that.

And I have gotten in on like a release event here in The Hague at a store called Tabletop Kingdom.

I'm doing it this weekend.

So by the time you're listening to this, I've already gone.

I don't know if it's good or not.

I will assure you, though, I've lost every game that I've played, but I will let everybody know how that went next month.

I really hope that someone recognizes you not for this podcast or the plethora of books that you have written, but for, oh, that's the G Gundam podcast guy.

I hope so.

That would make me so happy.

Like, there is guaranteed to be at least one person there who will recognize you.

I don't know.

I'm not entirely sure.

I will find out.

I will let everybody know how this goes on our next episode of Robots because I'm going on Saturday.

So, by the time you listen to this, it has already happened.

But yeah, thanks to Tabletop Kingdom in the Hague for squeezing me in there, even though it was full.

But what have you, what do you have for our wellness corner today?

Well, ironically,

part of I'm going to be talking a lot about mental health in the actual body of the episode while talking about Eva Kelly on.

But I'm going to say that I have been very busy and very stressed.

So I have not been in my own wellness corner, but my house is slowly depleting of books.

They're all slowly, slowly being sold and shipped out.

I haven't been able to go to the gym only sporadically because of various different reasons.

But in the most important wellness corner moment, every week after I go to therapy, I get myself a ban me from a very specific ban me place.

And I go there so often that one of the guys who works there has started giving me free iced coffees.

Unfortunately, last week, when I went to go get one, they are on holidays until September.

So

either I kill myself before September or I have to find a different ban me spot.

You can't take it butt of the suicide bon me.

That's what they tried to give Shankai Sheikh.

Yeah, exactly.

My gym progress has been interesting because I've been traveling a lot for work, obviously,

to the UK.

Got to hang out with you again, which is wonderful.

Got to record a lovely podcast series.

Bubo maxing.

Yeah, we're always boobo maxing.

But that also means I end up in a lot of weird gyms.

And the one that I ended up this time was in a very bougie part of town, despite the fact that I was staying in a Travelodge, because of course I was.

You save money on your accommodation and literally nothing else.

It's so fun.

If Travelodge had some kind of reward system, I would be a lifetime like gratis

client.

Also, I managed to, because before we did a live show in that same area, I got a Travelod, right?

Had AC and nothing else.

It's a Travelodge.

You get a bed and possibly a working bathroom.

In my experience, it could go either way on that one.

I thought the same one was booked, but in that particular part of London, there are two travel lodges literally 100 meters from one another.

And I booked a different one.

This one did not have air conditioning when it was like 37 degrees in London, which was very unpleasant.

But I got a local gym that had a very reasonable drop-in fee.

And it was advertised as like a bodybuilding gym, which is what I use, you know.

And not that I do bodybuilding, you're never going to catch me on a stage, but like, you know what I mean?

It has a bench press, a square, it has dumbbells, it has a couple of machines.

It's all you need.

A normal gym.

However, what I got, Tom, was not a normal gym.

It was a normal gym created by a CrossFit guy.

And I know that because it was connected to a CrossFit gym.

And if there's one thing about CrossFit people, I'm not here to shit on CrossFit.

Y'all have fun.

I don't care.

Do what makes you happy.

But it would be like if I tried to start a CrossFit gym or I don't know, a gym for gymnastics.

I don't know what the fuck you need in there.

And they don't know what the fuck I need in here.

So what I had instead of like a bodybuilding gym was an entire room of squat racks,

some very oddly weighted kettlebells, none of which matched, a dumbbell rack that I would compare to what you get in a normal hotel gym, like went up to like 25 kilos, a very random selection of machines.

Um, and the strangest cable machine I have ever seen in my life.

And I don't know what company it was from, it doesn't uh stick in my mind, but I knew something was wrong with it.

Like, look, I understand that I've been training a long time, I'm decently strong.

I'm not going to stand here and say, I'm brian fucking Shaw, right?

There's no reason that I should set a cable machine to 80 kilos to have to do curls.

Like something is wrong with your machine.

And you know how it was, I definitely know it was created by a CrossFit dude who'd never used that shit.

They had free chalk available.

No fucking gym does that other than CrossFit gyms.

It was terrible.

I straight up could only do half of my leg day and the people that worked there were incredibly rude.

The only gyms that have free chalk are CrossFit gyms and powerlifting gyms, but you can't really just walk into a powerlifting gym.

But on the CrossFit thing, we have all moved on from hating CrossFit.

I still dislike CrossFit as a concept, onto making fun of High Rocks because High Rocks is just like an adult version of school sports day for people who work in accounts.

Like, I think, like, it's not for me, but if that's what gets people to start working out and having fun, I'm fine with it.

Also, it, you know, I think having more specialized fitness spaces is a good thing because not every gym is good for everything.

Like, we've often said, like, we hate running into CrossFitters in our normal gyms

because our gyms are not built for that.

It's like if a powerlifter went to my gym, they could kind of use it, but also it's not for them.

And I love my powerlifters.

You guys fucking rule, but like you, you need your own place.

Yeah.

And I think as these fads like solidify into

more of a program, because some of these things die off over time, but some have staying power.

CrossFit has staying power, even though it looks like nothing like it did 20 years ago.

But the fact that they have their own spaces means that, like, us in the normal gym have less people doing weird pull-ups and uh, the world's worst power cleans to contend with.

Like, you guys can have fun in your own spaces, yeah, doing the Marjorie Taylor Green pull-up routine.

Shout out to the physio that you have on retainer.

Um, but hey, if that's what gets it, like, who am I to fucking judge doing unsafe shit?

I get kicked in the head for a hobby, like, yeah, do what makes you

literally.

Um, but speaking of uh, appropriate places to

safely build your body, we also have another safe space for bodybuilders that we're going to talk about.

That I spotted my Twitter this morning.

So I would like to thank Tom for this because he sends me screenshots of the most cursed shit imaginable, just without any context at all.

Normally, I don't look into them because they're not at all connected to anything I'm doing with my day.

But this time, since we're sitting down to record today, he sends me a screenshot of a Facebook group called Bodybuilders Against Tipping.

I thought this was like the weird British version of tipping, where it has something to do with like dumping trash, which is again would be a very strange concept.

But today,

it's again, it's bodybuilders who are specifically against tipping weight staff.

And neither of us have a Facebook account anymore.

So we actually had to delve into the lives of my donkey staff and have our producer, Ani, look and do it for us because she's the only one we know with a Facebook account still.