Big Max - Full Documentary - Going Vegan

my name is max grow 30 years old going vegan for a month really i'm doing it for a couple reasons one is a better understanding of the vegan culture and diet i also wanted to see if i could do it i like challenging myself sometimes seeing how long i can let my hair grow see how long i can hold my breath about a minute and a half and i'm a smoker which is pretty good and uh really the third reason is just to spite you what i'm looking to do in this month is to live as a vegan and really put myself in there i don't want to just live off oreos swedish fish and potatoes for a month i like cooking i want to be able to cook some vegan options and this is a good way to up my repertoire as far as you know am i going to be any healthier at the end of the 30 days i don't know i'm not doing this to like you know be healthy or anything i kind of just want to show you that i can be a better vegan than you i signed on with a mutual friend to work on a short i knew everybody that was working on it except for one guy by the name of justin russell the weekend before said short i was throwing a big barbecue at my house and lo and behold why don't we start with your name i'm justin [Laughter] it's nice to meet you we were just working together all the time after that i'd met you right when i was training for my first marathon i hadn't changed my diet at all i was still eating mcdonald's and a bunch of other [ __ ] and i remember how bad i felt after i ran my first one so i was like something's gotta change here i've been vegan for three years i buy 40 pounds of bananas every week and a half or something like that i've never had a cigarette and i don't drink when i switched to a vegan plant-based diet it was like everything has just changed for me because my endurance and running got better basically my sleep patterns got better my focus at work got better it just exceeded what i thought would happen on the diet so that's why i went for you over the next 30 days max will be abstaining from all foods that were derived from an animal that includes all meat dairy and eggs we're going to be paying extra close attention to labels with my help he will be replacing everything he is used to with a plant-based diet there is a stigma with vegans and blend like most people you say vegan and they think immediately like a dreadlocked birkenstock wearing hippie sunken eyes emaciated weird skin no shine to their hair on the verge of death but you know i'm gonna be vegan i'm fat vegan might not be a lot of us but they're out there [Music] [Music] i think we're going to hit up whole foods and get something to cook for lunch is it weird my stomach's growling as we pass this cattle i actually don't eat a lot of red meat but i love cooking like hamburgers man i like burgers my last meal i guess was a small thin all meaty pizza that i fished out of the trash and ate cold trash pizza [Music] there was also like a used half eaten garlic butter cup in there that i devoured with the pizza oh man look at that color this is a drastic change i can foresee myself going through some withdrawal like if you had to eat meat for 30 days be hard right because you you crave that organic vegetable in your mouth just like i want bacon grease running down my chin my favorite time i can last the 30 days i'm disciplined when it's uh you know fueled by spite but uh i'm sure i'll be cooking a pound of bacon a month from now that's i'm almost positive this stuff is great i make sloppy joes with this and you can put it in lasagnas and all kinds of good stuff i just think it's funny how hyped you are about this you're like this is cool this is cool i would never describe health stuff as cool but you know to each his own teachers max was always a creative candidate from the get-go he was enthusiastic about cooking from a young age look at the color of these things max is an excellent cook he can prepare pretty good sized meals and pretty tasty meals he's always been really good at that see how that opens up get every clove i definitely want to learn more about cooking vegan and think that i can add a little bit to the party flavor-wise and in vegan cooking and i'm excited to learn more about it kosher salt literally a pinch some fresh cracked black pepper and then what we're going to do is we're going to re-season when they come out i'll chop them a little and mix them with a little this roasted garlic who is it is yes nice to see you i knew you would come by too i always go by for my vegan diet yeah those are nuts i hope you enjoyed them i'm gonna enjoy your nuts thanks buddy that is very thoughtful yes let's see some of the other [ __ ] i got roasting up some garlic these golden beets eggplants i'm gonna grill some eggplant and [ __ ] that's cool how long have you done math like six years six years old six is this weird to know max as a person and think that he's doing this no i think it's great i'm very glad that it's happening i think it's pretty rad and radical a radical and red that's both huge plate of vegetables to grill it looks like summer out here it doesn't quite feel like it grilling's like sex you got to keep your hot keeper clean and keep your lubricated got some cumin in there red pepper on everything tiny bit of canola oil aerosol style saltless it's good i guess would you cook this kind of vegetables with meat absolutely it's like a standard for sure i cook vegetables a lot um a lot more salt and oil than you probably would and i'm going to try to curb some of that but uh yeah i mean i i cook all around because like right now i'm excited to eat this i'm hungry i want to eat it it's going to be good you know but uh i mean later in the night especially if i'm around people eating meat i'm gonna want some of that and if then i'm stuck with like hummus well they're chowing down on meat and they'll suck it'll suck [Music] i am uh headed to hang out with some of the longtime friends we get together on a monthly basis and uh play dungeons and dragons like an old poker game you're still trapped within the ice cave um but you've got you opened the middle room and saw just uh just a host of enemies in there uh seth dropped the song how do you guys feel about him going to vegan yeah interesting i think it's gonna be a challenge all right where you guys gonna order from should we just get like pepperoni double bacon cheese my main fear going into the month would be acceptance with my current social group i brought my own vegan lunch i made oh my god yeah that's the next step my friends are as close as my family i'm gonna mark him and i'm gonna spit in his [ __ ] face yeah sometimes even closer i'm gonna use my standard to ready my action for if someone comes through that door i'm gonna stand i'm just gonna pound them bash them on the head with me hammer i have been friends with max pretty much our entire lives actually don't remember the first time we met it's been one of those people you've just always been friends with as long as you remember i don't want to be doing an explorer um you were little bro 20 20 20 years probably 20. yeah we didn't really ever start hanging out till maybe the last 10 though once uh you were kind of a little douche music [Laughter] i still regularly hang out with people that i went to kindergarten with which is cool it's very cool sausage and jalapenos and onions one thing i've brought to the table in my social group is being able to provide a good big meal for people to share cooking brings people together and that's really important to me [Music] i'm always cooking for big groups whether it be us going down camping or watching all three lord of the rings films with a hobbit menu and i guess my fear is being able to cook completely vegan and have them enjoy it i guarantee that some people won't even try it so it's gonna be interesting my parents gave us some leftover halloween candy from trick-or-treat is it vegan i i don't think so i don't think there's anything there [Music] for breakfast on day two i've got some steel cut oats some dried cranberries and a nanner i would have no problem pounding like four eggs half a pound of bacon a couple pieces of toast and a glass of milk but there's a little tiny bowl of oatmeal is defeating me i feel sick that was great if the oatmeal is defeating you and it's half the calories isn't that a cool thing that you can get filled up on that kind of stuff and then save so much i mean you'll be losing weight you care at all not really potential gained health is not at all important honestly right now i mean no not not particularly i just don't really care [Music] i mean i have an addictive personality i'm definitely addicted to sugars cigarettes definitely found out i'm addicted to weed so i'm gonna make a one hitter out of a baby carrot this body is amazing but it's like how much can it take how much can i give it now we're just gonna hollow out this part so you're you're trying to beat your body it's getting beat vegan warming there's probably some things i might adopt that i learned you know this month but uh i don't know it's gonna take a lot to change this mindset i'm really stubborn so we'll see good afternoon hey what's up buddy is he cooking down there no was that you cooking down there no something's cooking dude you don't smell that no oh yeah sun's cooking i can smell it [Music] max was always a little bit left of center uh just a little different he was funny a good storyteller imaginative you know we always had like a costume box going on went through the period for a year he had on cowboy boots i mean for a whole year it was disgusting i had to cut them off of him he just always has tickled me i think he's just a cool person said from a mom but i mean he's always been himself which is probably like the ultimate cool it always came really naturally to him so yeah he always had a lot of friends he always had this broad range of friends like in high school he was friends with football players and the nerds and the drama people you know the stoners like everybody people just gravitate towards him it's hard not to he's pretty great he's definitely everyone's favorite person i think [Music] he's kind of just like he is now max went off to columbia after high school to study film i was gonna pursue acting in in college and i went to chicago because of that when we were registering for classes there's all these little lines and each major had a different section the line for acting was was through the [ __ ] door but since 85 of the school was filmed there's like six different areas you can go for film and these kids were just getting in and out and i literally made the decision right there i was like [ __ ] this line i'm just gonna go schedule these film classes so i changed my major right there but i didn't go back to chicago did some time at ohio state and that's when i decided that i was just going to take the money ohio state had already given to me which i was supposed to pay back having withdrawn but instead i bought a sony dcr vx 2000 which was pretty much it was a pretty sweet prosumer camera at the time and uh shot a horror movie called bloody mary she came out of the mirror [Music] all friends that have never made movies before that was about 10 years ago and a couple months ago i just finished paying for it from the debt incurred from credit cards and and also i had to pay osu back [Music] we're shooting the teaser trailer for bombing the dead i'm uh constructing a zombie hand here we started working on bong of the living dead almost 10 years ago now as soon as we finish bloody mary we uh we started shooting around some zombie movie ideas and that was kind of the genesis of it what about weed and zombies max has had leadership qualities all his life people want to be around max people want to work on his projects he has the ability to ask for people to help and people want to say yes i made max a snack honey crisp apples with a little bit of cinnamon that's it nothing else i swear i swear nothing else i can't wait to go home and cut up the rest of my apples and coat them in cinnamon does anyone else want to try they're good they're awesome i want him to do well because i want him to be doing this kind of twisted [ __ ] for a very long time you know like maybe another 50 or 60 years matt i did hear on dr oz that for every like 30 pounds you lose you'll gain an inch what are your dick yes because your belly goes down and you can get i could stand to grow about six we are calling you tripod that's right [Music] hello hey where are you at i'm uh heading to tim's you you should turn around you need to turn around and come back here down by uh by weber the superfood mart webber and it's bad i can't believe you're gonna go get some of this and pound it in front of me that banana pudding up on top of there no mashed potatoes are your mashed potatoes vegan no nothing good are your mashed potatoes vegan certainly not certainly not that's a great answer too like i would hope not [Music] i literally don't think my dick has felt like this in years i'm path mastering i feel weak i literally feel weak right now i weak willed and physically weak i'm gonna go schlep over to subway and get a [ __ ] veggie sub oh man [Music] sup double meat strike that [Music] dude it's not so much the smell it's that this weighs about the amount of something that i would want in my stomach and this weighs nothing when you get food and it weighs this heavy when it's like full four pounds of food i don't care how good it is it's gonna be it's gonna be in there this is gonna [ __ ] out in a minute like just let's go let's go to tips i got the delicious half bird drizzled and delicious herbed honey biscuits mashed potatoes i got spinach lettuce cucumber tomato olive pickle jalapeno and spicy brown mustard a salad with bread wrapped around it this is the worst it's been this is like an alcoholic drinking like fake wine or like oh duels it just it is it's like oh i bought this it must be unhealthy for me just so you know i am not going to eat all of this in one sitting dude you would or he would have gotten a whole bird i would have gotten the whole thing wait a minute wait a minute this is a half bird so you order by the size of the animal yeah i mean the the portion of the animal it's the breast the thigh the leg the wing it's a traditional thing to do half the bird half bird [Music] they take the innards out and they cut the head off i think the next documentary is he's just gonna eat meat yeah maybe just to do the best like me it would be justin puking for i am pretty excited to be eating chipotle and i'm excited to like be able to go to a restaurant i'll satiate a little uh [Music] mental craving along with my physical hunger i used to be addicted to mcdonald's no joke what was your poison like double quarter pounder two large fries large i'm not kidding dude i can't you can't even eat that much i did that was years ago i have no desire to eat mcdonald's at all yeah it's that conditioning exactly but is that that's kind of cool though right a little bit that like you know you can maybe in this month you won't be stopping at those fast food restaurants anymore well i don't think i would be at all yeah no maybe he's about it bro no no i mean like after the month oh yeah for sure that you'll go back oh yeah i can't wait so what are you gonna get here veggie burrito i know you're gonna want me to get the brown rice but i don't know man you need to what what beans are you gonna get you can't get the pork you can't get the the pinto good for you i know my food bro i'm good at eating i can't even i can't even think right now i'm literally i'm literally drooling can we please eat justin can we please go in there [Applause] i put yours in here that one i grabbed as a distraction really vividly while i stole the tabasco did you really yeah i try to i need some i got all the sauces bro did you yeah a little bit so you just got a sodium bomb all right [Music] right now i need every vice i can get sugars sodium weed i'm gonna take my vices when i can get them if it's allowed by law i'm gonna do it because i live my life on the edge most people say i roll with my [ __ ] off safety what's up vince hi max got my vegans nice didn't want to come to chipotle no no i had chipotle two days ago so i went to burger king so if you're roto you went to burger king burger king what'd you get pounded a chicken sandwich add bacon yeah [Music] that was so good [Music] it's day four day four of being vegan i am not currently out of my vegan mind it's day six being vegan almost one week at my week marker i get to eat beef right no no it's day seven day eight end of day nine i don't know what day it is that's beautiful morning hey partner i brought you some vegan sausage gross [Music] breakfast vegans are probably worse than the amish let's make the unhealthiest vegan cheese steak we can because the aim of shall shun yeah that looks kind of gross wow but the vegans will talk bad about you on the internet and that's one tool the amish ain't got thank god your [ __ ] vegans are poisoning the tofu those things look pitiful i think there's nicotine in there there could be when in doubt eat fruit sugar do you know what vegan zombies crave what grains get it tastes like the absolute cheapest nastiest hot dog [Music] that you could ever buy this is what i open the fridge to flank steak this is what i get to eat tofu my favorite are you missing me today yeah yeah this stuff is pretty good not bad right let's eat it we just looked it up it is vegan and my first experience at starbucks as a vegan but i didn't know you know i just went vegan and i don't really know what to get i had to ask with the vegan option and of course the lady was like uh well we have coffee well we have coffee show me that vegan thing boom did you look for you did real good at the grocery i was label looking a label looker a label look or loo you know what dr seuss says about labels nothing he's dead these guys right here today i was gonna make pasta with like sausage disaster there was stuff i couldn't see and i peeled the label away i saw an e and as i held it and peeled it away it was like gee i was like oh please no where it is [Music] egg white it was like a [ __ ] opposite of a scratch-off lotto ticket and i was like [ __ ] and i was really disappointed i couldn't cook those sausages out of my vegan mind signing off [Music] [Laughter] what are you doing what are you doing what's this there's no cheese on there you want to see you can eat some of it doesn't that look good there's beets jalapenos calamanus really i'm [ __ ] starving too it was bad in there really yeah they're eating pizza cheese is dripping off their chins throwing peppers or pepperonis around in each other's mouths it was like it was like a non-vegan playground in there and no one wanted to play with me work at a pizza joint we make our own dough we chop our own veggies i get to i get to cook teach 16 year olds how to mop but really not a lot of people at work there like know what it means to be vegan really they know the word and they know it's like vegetarianism but they don't know what it means to be vegan they're saying stuff like so wait you can't have eggs like no [ __ ] i can't have eggs being vegan frightens people they are all horrified that i'm being a vegan why do you think that's why do you think that puts people off so much because it's naturally meat i think we're supposed to eat meat bottom line it's instinct just so happens your way is healthier does that make it right you could be as healthy as you are for the rest of your life and out of nowhere just drop dead i could be that weird grandpa that's perfectly healthy at [ __ ] 90 years old still smoking cigarettes and eyeing the young chicks and doesn't die another 94. you know what i mean it just it doesn't matter dude it's a cruel cruel world why what's up because a lifetime dream of mine has happened has come true there's a package in there with two half pound reesey cups in it it's this [ __ ] big and it's a full pound of the biggest reese's look i'm [ __ ] drooling i'm drooling because there's a reese cup in there that's this big two half pound cups that's nine packets of reeses would you eat that in one sitting oh i mean maybe like two movies but yeah i mean i would be sitting the whole time man cruel world hey maybe in a month [Music] since after his only year in college max does have some self-destructive habits and sometimes he delights in those self-destructive habits or at least wants people to think he's delighted in them i think he's just i think i think the weight is a product of a certain level of sadness that i that i just think is in him i think he's very good at pretending that he's okay and he doesn't always let people know that he's not okay max doesn't admit a lot of things he's an entertainer and probably an excellent liar as well i was a child actor so real early i got the sense of pretending and then getting applauded for it i can tell a lie that i believe during high school i struggled a lot with knowing who i was because i was i had such a masked demeanor i was i was i was two people and it was it would get confusing sometimes i didn't know if i was more the pretend max or the real max but i have a very different mental projected image of myself than this i don't want to sit here and go oh gosh i wish he was you know six feet tall and 180 pounds he never will be but anything that he takes on to do to help his overall health i'm totally supportive of it's excruciating some days to see him just get down the stairs you know that's a lot to carry around i worry enough that i don't really like to think about it because then i get like this he has so many people there for him and so many people love him and believe in him what i want to help with this month is that you regain a little bit of yourself that's part of this dietary thing i just wanted to make sure that you know you know that i got your bag [Music] max has been cooking nothing but basically sauteed veggies and tofu for about two weeks so i am on my way with a giant grocery bag full of stuff to show him that you can start cooking all kinds of recipes we're gonna cook black bean burgers and sweet potato fries hopefully it will turn him on to some different options he could potentially do [Music] what we're going to do first is make the fries i brought all my seasonings and stuff because i didn't know what you had i want to make sure that we have exactly how i make these yeah dude this stuff tastes like fish food no wait it does it's so good it's it smells like it too it is a it's nutritional yeast he seasons stuff with it for when he wants stuff to taste like fish food do you have a torii hanzo sword [Music] you're just cutting them like that oh you're killing me that's a sharp ass knife bro did you already put the oil in there i did i put about a half a half a tablespoon these are these are pretty fresh i flip them over so the skins are down you should spread them out actually too a little more yeah the more space they have around them the better at all eat more even yeah you get more of a roast and less of a steam if they're not okay you want some of those garlic yeah how many two cloves uh two cloves yeah and just kind of press it in there what'd you just do smashed it all right this is just a pinch of salt you use it as an abrasive give me a little sliced minced beet action you are a mincing master you know there's a difference between mincing and dyson right no this has some really essential stuff in it vitamin b12 is the one thing that is overlooked by vegans and it's the only thing that's not derived from plant so you have to like you know supplement it so it's added and i just have a strip or two of bacon every day yeah you smell that it smells like cheese i think that smells like cheese it's been a while since you're eating some cheese bro they already smell pretty good [Music] in my opinion we're looking we're looking mighty fine here yeah [Music] it's not bad pretty good definitely that whipped tofu would give it a little bite or maybe some shrooms but they got good texture i will never be free from you till i escape the lion's jaw there's no answer in the end there's no reason to return again where'd you learn to cook my dad he was a cook yep can you tell me a little bit about your dad who told you to tell me who told you to ask that no one i mean it's nothing really big he never talks about her dad they're the exact same they're both a little bit that like all or nothing um maybe a little angry and a little a sad of my personality and humor kind of comes from him i love my dad i was in fourth grade when my parents got divorced so max was a freshman i think i saw it coming um and it was better for both of them i mean i'm sure it was i think people try to force that divorce on me as a catalyst for mental unrest but i don't really feel like it was to tell you the truth i think right after the divorce they stayed pretty close up until maybe max's graduation from high school and we'd go camping and stuff and i would go over there like once or twice a week and uh he moved to florida and i wasn't uh corresponding with him as much as he wanted how long's events do you talk to four or five years maybe [Music] you know if i bring you into that fold of friendship and people that i've been you know like friends with for 25 years or like family uh you're you're there you're part of me but if you're dismissed from that whether your own exit or i dismiss you it's complete cut off like they're not even there they never existed a lot of things in my life i i kind of do the wrong way but i justify them in my head somehow that works to me to fit my set of principles you know my standardized principles i often say i live my life based off spite i don't know why i enjoy that tim says that i would cut off my nose to spite my face my brother and i would joke sometimes that the only way to get max to do something healthy was to tell him not to do that if you wanted to tell him for example he needs to be healthy or he's going to die then he'll say well i'll show you i'm going to die [Music] we're heading to the nutritionist and uh uh we're gonna we're gonna you know i think tell each others uh tell each other our theories on nutrition maybe i'll teach them a thing or two hi max i'm dr saplay nice to meet you nice to meet you welcome to the office come on back all right i've been vegan now for six days i'm probably lost a couple pounds okay i think the process has probably started you know you can't i can't really feel it you know right i don't feel much different right now okay your ability to get rid of toxins is very individualized the the food you've been eating is information it's told your genes to store fat just regulate your blood sugar elevate your cholesterol make you big around the middle change your brain chemistry all of that is by design your body has done exactly what you've told it to do okay one of the things that i i learned a long time ago as i got into health care was 90 of the health care dollar is spent on one thing very expensive dying waiting until you're in crisis it's a catastrophe and then going into the hospital hoping they can piece you back together and extend your life this has never been about health for me you're facing diabetes damage to your nerves and your arteries lose limbs you can go blind you can have kidney disease i can't remember the last time i was at the doctor's decades the inflammation from that condition results in irritation in the arteries so they start blocking up i love max and i want to stick around he's probably like my favorite person i'm sure i'll be cooking a pound of bacon a month from now now you have cardiovascular disease your brain's being damaged physically not able to do the things you want to do it's not really living it's just slowly dying the world would definitely be less of a place without my brother in it i mean i wouldn't want to have children if he wasn't around because it'd be awful for them not to know him he's really spectacular [Music] but i've kind of been getting ready for that for the better part of my life you watch what he eats and then what he says and how does he look afterwards and is he breathing heavy and can he fit in this chair and if we lose him how do i tell my mom and how do i tell my dad and who's going to take care of what logistically which is an effective thing to think about you know you have the plan ready honestly when i look back maybe i should have done more i drank apple juice all the time and i thought it was healthy no cookies no sweet skim milk made baby food for hallie for like two months and then this is ridiculous i'll just buy it for 40 cents i thought i was being the good mom i wish i'd just have paid better attention when he was growing up i really did it's my biggest regret i feel like in a situation like on biggest loser some of those people obviously are hiding something and eating their way out of their you know personal problems or something [Music] i don't know if that's the case with me i don't feel like i have this giant [Music] burden of of hiding or like uh you know this this blanket i hide under the you know to hide my heartbreak or something coming home from columbia was really tough for him i don't think he necessarily wanted to not go back to school there was a money issue at the same time that was when brandy broke up with them so he had two pretty serious body blows right when he came home he got really bad and he wasn't talking to anyone not even sure if he was paying rent at that point he was just living with friends and they were kind of letting him he was in their basement and he just like wouldn't even come up and i said max needs help i didn't realize that making bong the living dead was my life goal until just a few years ago so i didn't really have any focus and i was flailing for a long time slow death is pretty much what i was after through filmmaking and writing and finding my place and in community i've just slowed down my fall and kind of clung to the wall and i'm now climbing back up you know with with determination and a goal in mind now i know where i need to climb now i've got some focus you know about time we're 40 the health line of individuals seems to decline by the time they're 60 most people in america have chronic disease so they're going to live with that chronic disease for the next 20 years if you change your lifestyle you you follow through with this uh you know vegan diet and you get some exercise again you do some stress reduction all the science is pointing to the fact that you can take these genes and you can tell them i can go back to having normal body composition you can go back to doing that it's just a step you just bring that knee up a little bit there you go and i replace yeah place we're at right now bishop waterson high school i'm the head strength coach here small i want them small i take all the sports teams and strength condition basically get them stronger get them healthier can't stop you know when max came to me obviously i've known him forever since kindergarten and i'll do anything for max so love the guy breathe [Music] i'm tired i woke up starving on a normal day i'd probably just go drive somewhere and get like a massive meal get like chinese food or get a big steak and cheese sub or something and pound it and watch a movie and not really even be ready to start my day till like late afternoon but smoke a cigarette and go and walk i do have to start getting in shape for a bong of the dead because filming a movie you got to be able to physically handle it i want my body to give out i have sensitive nipples [Music] 430 pounds what's the maximum scale 440 a week ago yeah it was over so that's about 10 pounds probably it was a long day man long day i mean we were filming all day it was a long day and then i got home and i wanted to throw that stuff and marinade the tofu and use that so i was vlogging that smells like peace oh my god justin's gonna kill me horribly unhealthy probably incredibly delicious when i stopped to get gas i got a bag of swedish fish cause they're vegan sweetest fish i had uh some root beer here so i was like but out of nowhere a little health demon inside of me said isn't that a lot of sugar to end your day with hanging out with justin he would call that a sugar bomb so i replaced this without even thinking about it with this that doesn't usually happen so it's a weird thing i documented it that was pretty much the first decision based on like health that i'd ever made and i was like wait i better vlog this i better document like max's first health decision in his life which was something as simple as not drinking a root beer that now i really want to drink and and and i may good morning what's what is so significant about today any calendar i'll tell you it's thanksgiving also known as turkey day not for this guy i'm vegan i'm completely vegan [Music] going to whole foods we're going to go check some tofurkey out well yeah let's go [Music] well the last couple years my family always goes to kentucky and i've had to work so instead of having poultry with friends and family i eat red meat by myself it's already stuffed brown rice whole wheat bread onion celery water i'm gonna subject my friends and family to a tofu turkey ball it looks weird right tofurky gross it's like the thanksgiving for lost boys we'll give it a whirl we'll see yeah we'll see it's a little difficult because uh if you think about it people at home with your turkey dinners like none of it's vegan everything's got at least butter or chicken broth or you know some sort of cheese or something in it where it's not just the turkey it's literally like the whole meal but it's really weird that we take vegetables process them up to try and imitate dead flesh that's weird if you were like in a survival situation lost in the middle of the woods would you eat me then if someone like killed a deer absolutely what'd you drink it's blood no what's is it stuffed already yeah oh my god one is leaking it's literally oozing paste out of the end okay but yet pulling animal gizzards out that drippage is grosser to me than pulling out the [ __ ] guts out of a rib cage of a raw turkey how's that i don't know man yeah so trying to cut into the side of it so keep you know what i mean keep it as loafy as possible not gonna use scissors maybe it smells bad but that's that's all that is vegetable right there yeah it looks like it's already been eaten oh i don't want to eat any of this bro i don't know if i could do it really oh you don't like come on i got it here take a breather is it really making you gag yeah it's bad have some water yeah i might have to go upstairs go ahead if you need to [ __ ] toe fur came in oh too big why i might be all right girls oh this is real life this is real life oh man i feel great um happy nights giving you feeling better i'm gonna i'll prep them [Music] so i mean will you try it even after all this no then you're a trooper don't try all right we get one where the tofurky and i just found out i have cancer [Music] how much did you just put in there just a little yeah okay [Music] you're tired did you taste those yeah did it taste any different it tasted like it was missing butter and cream every point i make you punch it i just punch it bring it down a notch thanksgiving right thanksgiving [Music] [Music] [Music] and those that came before us we were going to cut these wonderful tofurkeys the taste of this can't be bb i'm eating some weird stuff so this might not be that bad it's the loaf that throws you i don't know man get a good piece and save the neck for me [Music] i like it and the stuffing is good [Music] no i don't like that i do not like that so what's up just waking up day 27 whoa 27 days i don't even feel vegan though bro do you feel about you no do you myself do you feel vegan i feel like i only scratched the surface of being vegan what does that mean i don't feel vegan at all i didn't even [ __ ] with grains at all you know i don't know why you would think you know and you know you can't just go to culinary school for a month and know everything about cooking so i might have to do it a little longer i think you're gonna have to just follow me around for a year [Laughter] please no no downward slope i am losing some weight though because none of my my pants are not fitting right that's great that's good yeah i was at 4 23 today congrats dude thanks bud that's awesome i i think the next big test will be this cabin trip because traditionally the cabin is just about meat and i usually do a lot of cooking and cook tons of meat like eggs meat i mean we go crazy plus the cabin is a spot where you just let your inhibitions go and if there was anywhere to cheat or to falter in anything in life it's at the cabin i'm gonna have to pack my own vegan chili maybe a potato so we'll see [Music] wow [Music] you need to do a shot of whiskey with that meat juice poured in it make it a meat juice funnel the first time we were here we just we had nothing but meat and we didn't even have any plates so we got planks of wood and just had a bunch of meat on planks of wood i like the ripping is that all for you in there big guy oh yeah i'm hoping it doesn't rain because this is my shelter tonight i've had three burgers and some salt pork already and i brought some bratwurst couple packs of bratwurst a two pound steak got some more burgers out up there to eat and for the morning i got some a bunch of fresh good applewood smoked bacon and then just some breakfast sausages too oh some meat with a side of meat with this side of meat yeah i just want to make sure what is that taters yeah what cut did you get what steak it's a sirloin how many ounces is that bad one it is 1.64 all right i used to be a raw man i used to cook it for like two minutes i know it just tastes better you're getting more for your buck you're tasting the meat not the dirt taste the meat nothing chicken steak yeah i got some vegan burgers i'm gonna throw on there this is what i'm gonna eat off of yes and we're all gonna watch you and he's gonna sound like this max what was in that burger what burger the ones you just put on like beans and that was it the texture wasn't like smooth no it's like vegetables yeah are pickled eggs that looks as gross as fast how is it like a sponge spongy do you want to try one [Applause] you put any mustard on this um tastes like soup pretty good right yeah not bad you won the last bite no you can do it would you guys ever eat that and replace of meat i'm not replaced with it but on top of a hamburger yes i did have some chicken but i had it like half an hour later how's the chili i think we were talking about something i like it's good anything max makes is delicious we watched three movies well let's cook these soy dogs put them on baby not eating meat for 30 days might not be a big deal to some people but for myself and people that know me that's a big deal because you know part of what i'm known for is eating lots of meat eating unhealthy don't you did it taste weird yeah do you think i could no okay being the fat guy you you always kind of grasp onto that you know kind of dictates part of your personality you embrace that probably from a young age you know as a defensive mechanism but it really does become part of who you are [Music] i think the weight has somehow become a part of his identity not just like a physical thing but he's the big funny one you know he's the big guy sometimes i think he's worried to let that go [Music] i think he worries that he won't be max which is sad and so not true [Music] i am craving tofu i'm about to pick out i really want to cook up some tofu make like a chinese stir-fry just the noodles not the beef packet not with chicken or steak with [ __ ] tofu they're putting something in the tofu i think cause why else would i be craving tofu i'm gonna eat this whole thing i'm changing changing i think max didn't necessarily want to be so unhealthy he just didn't know where to start as far as what to eat what not to eat and covers that up with well this is what i want to be doing and i think this this vegan-ness has really given him a framework a starting point and a framework to really think about what he's putting in his body and really be able to make more healthy decisions and still enjoy eating food it's a perfect way of life for him being that he enjoys cooking he knows how to cook there's no complaining about knees and ankles and feet and so that's what i want him to continue i would like to see him eventually start writing down these recipes and be a role model for other people you know i think there's a good many people out there like him john belushi john candy you know i just can't imagine that happening to max but yet i know that it can [Music] it would be very hard [Music] yeah he's the love of my life [Music] [Music] i think it would be good for him to stay vegan permanently you know it'll take a while i think to get healthier he's done such a good job you know and i'd just like to see him keep it up oh hello i'm chef goldblum dude what day is it today last day bro last day last day it's the last day and yet i bought a week's worth of vegan groceries last night oh really yeah looks like some unhappy vegan is gonna be really sad when i throw it on the trash at midnight tonight is this real sausage you starting early yeah real sausage i got uh platypus eggs it's a rare meal it's a rare mammal and they mistreat the [ __ ] out of them what are you gonna make i just want to make like a pretty simple gigantic three pound bacon cheeseburger oh that's easy any fries with that or just spread meat open the little fries maybe i'll have to cook those in bacon grease or something oh my god that's a good idea i'll put a fried egg on top of that burger too are you yep and maybe a boca vegan burger you're salivating was that drool yeah pardon my drool you're ready for it i am ready [Music] look at all this we got we got veggies there we go yeah can i uh can you direct me to this stuff that's not vegan please we're gonna look in the bun section how's this bun section let's find the most offensive buns we can park healthy wait one of those has 110 calories yeah what's that 240 160. all right let's find better right here no i mean like better as i'm worse [Music] that's a thing we've been getting away from you're making me feel really guilty you shouldn't i'm sorry you're right i just want you to relate unbelievable i just want to eat the meat you need to eat meat boom what's up bro just buying meat justin's really angry too he's like the dad that was like you can go to college wherever you want sweetie i just want to get closer to home and then the the daughter's like going to visit florida state and [ __ ] loves it and the dad's like behind learning he's going to lose his little baby look at him back there pout i don't even want to come up here there she is hey baby what's up love it love it dude remember those reesey cups at the gas station yeah and you found them here yeah i just want to haul one of those out fill it with ice cream then eat the ice cream i mean i love the bowl [Music] it's 11 exactly i got one hour i feel great the first time in the month that i've actually felt being vegan made a difference oh oh it feels so good hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] that's really thick yeah how's it looking man who cares smell it oh yeah [Music] oh dude you just flipped out onto your cheese there right there my hands aren't washed we're not gonna pick it up no you didn't it's gonna be good it's gonna be real good guy never sees me wait a minute spit it out yeah you have 24 minutes [Music] oh he's right i didn't even think about it me neither dude me neither wow almost didn't make it because you almost ate raw meat [Music] no it's not are you serious i think i need a bigger boat oh i got the food sweats going so good oh my god so good [Music] there's some big old burgers native americans used to wash themselves with smoke look at all this the whole neighborhood [Laughter] [Music] knows [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh yeah let's get this [ __ ] party started [Music] officially not vegan [Music] all right let's go each other i'm like really proud of that [Music] oh man i don't remember last month right now i i would i would quit me the game for a month just to eat that burger again oh my god look at my fingers oh i want to put up my butthole oh you did good you want some no but i'm proud of you give me a kiss give us a give us a kiss not on your lips there's probably grease there i wanted it and then i didn't know my case isn't vegan not tonight not tonight are you going for round two i am i'm gonna smoke a cigarette because i feel like i just got [ __ ] and then i'm gonna go eat another burger oh man [Music] i was torn up from that that meat day the next day i woke up and i felt like [ __ ] bro ate vegan for breakfast [Music] it really motivated me just how shitty i felt i kind of decided on the second there that i was just gonna i was just gonna stick with it i'm gonna stay vegan i think until christmas day you know the goal all along was through the month of november i think he did a remarkable job i'm hoping he kind of gets back into it so you're gonna do this for another 25 days 20 21 now because you've already been doing it christmas is three weeks away you did this without even telling me i did it on my own i did it for you this month is almost to uh this this month is the challenge i feel like if i do something based off of spite it's not a challenge it's a given but if i'm doing something to better myself that's a [ __ ] challenge bro you got your way you won i didn't i mean you won you won i was strictly like i'm gonna do this month and be perfect at it and then that little v his little vegan ass is gonna be so pissed when i just start pounding bacon every day and i don't want to so this experiment i mean it's kind of a home run then it's a hefty triple alright it's a home run song of a living dead dude up and down up and down frames and frankie goes [Music] from i just think it's really cool i'm i'm really glad that you did this with me and that you allowed me to to film this whole thing i just i don't know i have a big respect for you so it's really cool look for next month's documentary where justin will go non-vegan and i will follow him around with a camera for a month and i will wire him up what are we going to call it it's going to be called e-i-e-i-o or it should be called like e-i-e-i-o my [Music] god you

Channel: Justin Russell

Views: 25,268

Rating: 4.6425757 out of 5

Keywords: vegan, health, obesity, plant based, peta, funny, hilarious, documentary, full length film, doc, eating, food, food doc, food health, healthy eating, healthy, vegan food

Id: -0phu6qgZMU

Length: 81min 18sec (4878 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 09 2019