Talking PrEP, Chlamydia, and Therapy with Chris Olsen

how has she influenced me um you know well you you've right and you know so in the way that this isn't a gotcha question no so exactly and I'm glad you said that yeah so that's how what I'm so excited to welcome Chris Olsen to the checkup podcast in this talk we discuss so many juicy details his flight Fuel and how it got started that's his coffee brand how he became best friends with Meghan Trainor and how he's about to go on vacation with her we even discuss his intimate health history he shares some very juicy details not just about his physical health but his mental health as well there's a lot of good stuff to learn in this podcast hope you enjoy it let's get started well to start I have to say I'm incredibly disappointed oh I know why already no way because I didn't bring you a coffee yeah wait where's my backpack I have a I I do no no I don't I don't want to hand me down coffee fortunately are you gonna give me your used coffee no um no you drank the coffee and then you were gonna give it to me no well I mean that makes it more valuable some could argue enlighten me why because I because it's my coffee company and I've taken a sip out of it like that's really powerful coffee and you're saying if I was interested in the cloning experience yes which I would think as I think you are you do yeah tell me more this is just a read I get really like yeah a doctor who posts like who who shares much of his journey on social media that guy wants to clone people wow you you have me pegged as evil doctor then no no no evil I you know I think I think you would have a lot of good intentions it would probably go wrong but you would have a good heart at the beginning of it got it so it's like bad outcomes from Good Intentions 100 I will give you my word not cloning you okay heard but still upset that I don't have flight fuel in my head right now I can't believe I yeah right I dropped the ball on that one um but it is but I will get you some but you'll have some that's not to even I that I haven't even taken a sip out of I had one earlier because I felt like you might forget about it oh my God so you knew I had an inkling just like you thought I was the evil doctor I thought I wasn't on the tear level of celebrity that would get no yeah well I forgot it well well I don't have a coffee cup to back me okay that's okay let's get this awkward intro because I feel bad uh no torturing you I don't feel bad um what go on no sorry um how did that start how did you decide I'm gonna get coffee with people oh well it didn't really start it didn't start in the way that it is now like I was in a relationship at the time doing these tick tocks and I was going across the country on a trip and I was like maybe it would be funny if I like texted him I'm gonna go get coffee and then I go get coffee across the country oh so I was like I was going and getting it at the beginning then eventually along the line It came it became me delivering it to him and then we broke up and so I was like what do I do with this what do I do with all of my content actually but also with this instead of thinking what to do with my life post breakup you're like what do I do with this specific no so right right so I was I I actually yeah no no so I was feeling all of the things but also once the once I was thinking about uh Tick Tock too I was like oh I loved that thing um I want to keep doing it and so I did it with my dad a few times people love the dad ones really and then eventually I uh I was like I it kind of died because I I was like I don't really know where else to go with this sometimes a bit has run its course and you gotta let it die and then um Meghan Trainor asked me to do her podcast I said yes and she was like would you can you bring some Tick Tock ideas it's like I haven't done that in a while the coffee one in a while why don't I do that to her so she was kind of the first celebrity that I did it with that kind of like gave it it's a new life because then it was then anytime I was working with anyone else I was like Kim this is kind of the video it's like such an easy format yeah and it takes no time for the other person takes a lot for me but like no time for the other person so I was like so I've started doing it with more and more people and then yeah like I feel like I felt like after I did it for Austin Butler at the Elvis premiere the doors were opened it felt like that was like a really big one that was like okay now we can now I can kind of keep playing with it and keep having a thing and about a year ago was when I had the idea for the brand of it because I was like I feel like there's something here everyone also ever like people ask me where the best coffee is everyone wanted to be a part of the bit in some way and so I was like I think there's something here I love coffee I drink it very often um I would love to have something that felt very connected to me and so and I called it flight fuel to be connected to the bit as well I mean it's probably one of those I guess we can say influencer products that makes the most sense oh thank you well you see like hot ones created spicy you're like obviously absolutely yeah I see yours of course yeah I wasn't gonna like come out with a makeup brand or I mean um like that's I could but that doesn't fit exactly into my content and it's it's also like in and people go on business ventures that doesn't exactly fit into their content and that's not a bad thing at all but um I wanted to do one that felt very close to home very organic so that's where I went is it coffee organic because that would be even extra organic yeah so double organic yeah wow that's good source from yeah where's the best coffee you you mentioned that you said people ask me where the best coffee's from where's it oh well the actual beans are sourced from Central South America for the most part with some of them being from Asia and Africa but um the best like if I were to go and get a coffee flight fuel but um because I have to but in in New York I would go to there's a really great place in the West Village called Rosecrans which is great I love that one um uh devocione coffee because they do a very fun thing where they like you they're it's like beans in Argentina to being in your cup in like a week wow so it's very fresh um so that's my favorite and then I I don't know those those seem to be the best for me what about do you have a favorite what about bean location bean location I think most of them tend to be in like Central South America like if I was like here's three cups different geographies can you name it no I'm not gonna know where in the world they're from I I cannot count myself up to that big of an expert I will be able to tell the differences in the taste of them and tell you where what notes are coming out I mean when you're starting a brand they have to like you have to try a cat like a lot of different blends um to find out what you like to find out what feels good and so like over a few days my friend came over and we tried like we did a few different a few different blends every day trying it like in a pot trying it as espresso trying it over iced oat milk all of the things yeah um we're very caffeinated those days wow but you have to try all of them and So eventually you kind of walk away from that experience getting like okay now I I can tell pretty easily what in trying like what I enjoy from us is it like the wine tastings where they taste they you know splish it in their mouth and then spit it out you're supposed to like slurp it kind of so it hits all different points of your mouth exactly um and so you can really like get everything out of it yeah it is kind of like and you're supposed to spit it out I wasn't spitting the coffee yeah are you supposed to spit wine out I don't want to I think if you like the judges they spit it out because then they would just get blasted I wouldn't pick the last one every time no but and so I think with coffee because you're not getting drunk I think it's okay to me but I mean for your heart I get worried well as a doctor I'm sure what's like do you know what the limit yeah what is it I mean recommended maximal intake is 400 milligrams oh and how and one cup is about 150 right I would say give or take 100 depending on is it drip is it an espresso oh my God we're fine however there are people out there like we me you everyone in the room what do you mean I drink a lot probably a lot I'm joking do you surpass the limit talk to her no do you know Starbucks blonde roast you've heard very caffeinated their tallest one what is the tallest one called uh aventi no the one above or is it Trenta maybe the Trenta I don't think you can get Trenta in a hot drink though oh then okay maybe it's the venti I think 20 ounces it is 20 ounces venti 20 duh I should have known that come on you got the Latin background right my medical knowledge this week okay so 20 blonde roast plain guess how many milligrams of caffeine 300 250 close to 400. what and then people throw espresso shots into that bad boy whoa yeah okay and now you realize okay why I have so many patients yes also because also pre-workout I think a lot of the time has 300 milligrams I mean some of them have mega doses wow I mean KSI was just here he was drinking his Prime energy drink and has 200. okay I mean you have one of those and then a blonde roasted like you're in uh you're done unhealthy dose you're done for her yeah you're fine and you're gonna live a long life time um yeah that's that's no that's a lot I I I usually limit myself to about two cups a day but it's also and it's also usually like um like an espresso drink or something like that and espresso also I know has usually less caffeine than uh uh drip coffee or a cold brew though I do love a cold brew depends who's cold brew but again it's like it's all messy that's okay right and do you know um what's your take on the hydration status of coffee as a coffee person I always I don't I don't know what my take is on it but well if someone I don't know what I do if someone drinks coffee do you think it's hydrating or dehydrating I would imagine it's not that hydrating why because my mouth is usually a little more dry after I've drunk coffee I what I always do in the morning is I drink coffee and then I immediately drink like 24 ounces of water okay that's right after why after why not before um sometimes it's before um before is ideal oh why the first thing you want to consume in the morning is why daily water yeah well most of the time it's a bagel I read a sign the other day that said a New York City Bagel contains up to a quarter to half a loaf of bread that's not boundary that's great for a home the one who's who wants the bread that's a lot of bread and that's me um that's a lot that is a lot of bread I should that check the side I'll give you that yeah you should have fact checked it because is that JFK it was that JFK yeah where like on the where they have the departure arrival thing and they just it was fun facts about New York I don't believe it's like a Snapple cap you think I just pulled this I think you're lying no no I swear this this popped up show me a picture it's really interesting I didn't take a picture of it yeah yeah so it didn't happen convenient um I'm exposed okay yeah I that does kind of make sense because the bagels here are hearty yeah they're also dense um but no I I drink I I do get my water in in the morning but so you would say it's dehydrating because of the way it makes you feel yeah I don't actually know I do know my mom told me you can tell me if it's true my mom told me when I was growing up that um when that I ca I could never have coffee on an empty stomach because it'll give me stomach ulcers and so I have I never do that and I also tell my friends anytime they they're like they just wake up and they start drinking their coffee I'm like you can't stop your stomach so I always at least eat my bagel before I drink my coffee that's good A lot of people do intermittent fasting and drink their coffees so they do that um the reason why that thought came about and it's not a terribly inaccurate thought it's just not obviously she probably saw it at JFK you know JFK is like the worst spreader of the potential she probably saw it in a sign that was next to like the arrivals departures fun facts about New York you'll get stomach ulcers if you drink your coffee I have to fact check you okay great so when you drink caffeine your body's naturally secretes more acid in your stomach it induces acids secretes you like that word yeah that's that's quite the word yeah it's a medical word yeah I'm pretty excited about it right secrete I'm gonna start using that more give me a I just yeah of secretes wow all of the things that are coming into my mind are not safe for work I don't know what I don't know what level this podcast is rated at Coffee sorry okay coffee right hydrating um coffee is mostly acid yes yes but coffee is mostly acid water oh did you just say coffee is acid well isn't it acidic slightly period and what is it bad to drink so yeah no it's not bad to drink we have to no no we have to talk about that acid thing because I get really excited about it but with coffee specifically it has majority of it is water right because that's the liquid portion Bean water beanie water yeah that's how I like to say yeah beanie water yeah and that water is obviously hydrating because it's water right the caffeine component actually acts as a diuretic so it causes you to pee but the amount of pee that you create is usually a net neutral with the water that you've taken in so you take in water it hydrates you but then you pee it out so it's a net equal so I'm not very hydrated in the morning like I think I am well you are because you're doing the 24 ounces after but if you just drink a coffee it's not dehydrating or hydrating I see because it cancels each other oh oh because of the water in the coffee great but then if you're doing espresso shots less water less water more oat milk and more dehydrating because there's less liquid right oat milk must be hydrating because that's oat water yeah but how much are you're not putting in eight ounces of oat milk in yours wait and you're drinking oat milk with a side I could be well you don't know I don't yeah I assume have you seen it I have it yeah have you seen the sign of Jeff can I no I haven't I haven't we need to go together maybe we can drink our coffee to the side right so the guy that controls the sign yes and I don't know why I assume the guy controls it maybe because I saw him flipping the switches you didn't though you don't know did you know but that's a lie because I could see that one on your face is there like an anatomical um tell for liars as a doctor I'm sure I've read a really good book about what everybody is telling you but everybody everybody is telling you right it was a good book by Joe Navarro FBI guy and he's like someone's buttons up their suit out of nowhere while they're sitting they're getting uncomfortable right because they're trying to create space yeah of course so there's some cool things yeah there's there's plenty of things yeah yeah like if someone's like while they're listening to you they're like slightly like covering their mouth it usually means they have something to say yeah but they're trying to hold it in yeah we haven't done that yet though no we've kind of loved everything secret out sorry so um what was your name again uh Ricky Bobby wow from Talladega Nights yeah it's an old I've seen me yeah that's why I was upset you didn't bring me a coffee okay right that was kind of your star vehicle people are probably confused listening to this right now and they think we've drank more than coffee no but we haven't we've only drank coffee yeah and water I had a box this morning and you boxed this morning are you a big boxer I try to be right because you did a fight yes yeah two fights right two fights so I'm a fighter so do you box what like what's your box Vibe is it like um I have so like are you at like Rumble I'm trying to think or are you like you're like with a trainer with a trainer oh okay like my trainer isn't as cool as your trainer probably because yours is Megan oh my God that was good thank you not bad not bad see doctors can have personality yay speaking of Meghan Trainor how did you guys meet um we haven't yet uh but that's now I feel like you're lying I could because I watched you in the top with her we were in a tub where we were doing I can't tell you we were singing oh come on sorry come on anyway um yeah so we met because she asked me to do so she was like the first famous person to follow me back in the day really like a long time ago I did not even have that big of an account but now I know she's just like a follower she'll she'll follow anyone who brings her the slightest bit of Joy which is great love her for that she followed me I sent her a DM after she followed me and she never responded so I was like great that's our that's and there it is and that is our scope of me and Meghan Trainor uh she'll just watch from far and then I ended up I was thinking about her one night so naturally as we all should do I posted on my Instagram story that I'm thinking about Meghan Trainor and then she somehow saw it and reposted it to her story and then we started reposting it back and forth and back and forth and then um she dm'd me her number I was like we should hang out sometime and I ended up and it was right around the time that I was going through a breakup so then I ended up she was like well we should hang out do you want to come on my podcast all of the things and since I was now a solo act I went over there alone and did our podcast and then she was like do you want to do some tick tocks together and I was like yeah I can think of some tick tocks um and then we did some of them together and she was like wow you're really good at this I was like right it's all I do I have no there's I have no was it offensive or a compliment that she said that no it was a compliment okay it was for sure a compliment because some people say that you're a great influencer like I don't know you don't like it no I can see how somebody could see it in a negative way I guess but you're also like you truly do have a different profession I guess I think doctors are influencers though they do influence like don't eat that well first of all if your doctor says don't eat that that's a mean doctor really yeah wait they shouldn't tell you what to do right okay I would advise you to hold back I would advise you on the risks of eating this I would advise you on the risks of of right okay with that and then you can decide so it's always the choice is always okay team so you ultimately have patient autonomy great okay so she said you're a great yeah yeah no but I love the anecdotes I'm I'm pulling them out of you they're secreting out of you okay a lot yeah so I just wanted to let that land um I I so she said you're really good at this I was like yeah I mean I love doing it and then her team was like would you want to come back and like keep doing this stuff together I've just gone through a breakup I had nothing else going on in my life I was like of course I'll do whatever and then from there like we just became friends and we started we like we do tick tocks together a lot but also I've gone on vacation with her family I'm about to go to Australia with her for two weeks she'll be so fun um so and and also like it was just so cool to watch her like release made you look and do that whole thing and while we were to like still like we I felt like we were like a team doing all of the I mean obviously she is like running all of this and she's right she's also just like a genius at writing all this music and she truly does it all herself she's a writer producer music engineer all of the things and so I just like slowly became obsessed with her and thankfully she was obsessed with me as well since you're an influencer and you influence so many people one or two did she influence you in any way how she influenced me probably well yeah sure I guess um how is how it sounds like you're convincing yourself how has she influenced me um you know well you you're right and you know so in the way that this isn't a gotcha question no so exactly and I'm glad you said that yeah so that's how what I feel like I should have another comment so um yeah so she's I don't know she's I I'm just very inspired by her work ethic I think that's what one of the first things I ever asked her because while we were like making tick tocks together her team comes in and she's like can you approve this and what are you going to do on this Tuesday and are you okay if we have this person come in at 10 before you do that and she just like handles it all and I asked her I was like do you ever get stressed when people are asking me like five million things because if I've like I get too many texts I'm like time for bed I guess like off to a nap um and she's like sophomore credit I don't believe that for a second yeah no I don't that's it was a lie anyway but uh she she's very much she just handled and she's like no I I mean it's it's all stuff that none of this is really like World shattering stuff like I you know I can handle it all um and if doing something at one time is gonna make someone happy or if like I'm able to like you know connect with people more by doing this thing than I want to do it and so I feel like she's really helped me with being more open to Opportunities and like saying yes to things but also she's she is she'll stand her ground when she wants to say no to I think she's just been in this industry for so long like she kind of had her break when she was like 18 19 and she's 29 now so she's like been 10 years of being in the industry and so she knows how to handle advocate for herself and go about things so well that um it's something that I like aspire to yeah I mean anyone that has navigated this world successfully I'm an off because yes none of this is natural right you've been around for a while like did you just very politely call me old no you've been around for a while I had uh Barbara Corker from Shark Tank sit in that seat and tell me she's tell me that she thinks I'm 47 years old no yeah 48. you think no no if you were you would have an amazing skincare routine which I bet you do as a doctor no I moisturize okay sunscreen oh yeah of course oh do you call that a skincare routine though I think that is that's that's skin care it is you are caring for your skin that okay fair I just when I think skincare I think of serums do you think serum you think moisturize our eye cream under eye yeah right and you don't do those I just use soap and you moisturize and then sometimes soap I'm a big water person okay I'll give you an example as a doctor yeah let's say you were moving your arm on that microphone and you scratched yourself and you had a minor scratch what do you think medically is the optimal way to clean that scratch like what would you put on it if it were a minor scratch yeah like you could see blood coming out and it's like but it's not bleeding out yeah if it were you know spurting a little bit um I what would I do I put a I heard with what um this isn't a trick question just answer you said that so aggressively yeah like a Neosporin or something like that right would you wash it beforehand um I'd probably dab It Off what I got what you're trying to prove no there's no everyone you here's your options water and soap yeah some uh water to wash it off with some water so you wouldn't do alcohol peroxide no and I I'm sure that I should no okay you did it right okay you won right I did I watered I watered it yeah and then I put a Band-Aid on it that's it all the other stuff is largely unnecessary disinfecting it yeah wow just water why because your body will fix it herd but what if it doesn't what if it gets infected okay things when your skin is open it can get infected right but putting alcohol and peroxide immediately after a cut does not help it get clean okay because it actually hurts the skin creates more problems okay you don't need to do it so so walk me through what a shower looks like for you walk you through what a shower looks like yes like what it visually looks like you can all look so you get in turn on the water I usually turn on the water before I get in right I want it right okay we like a warm shower yes so you get in and the water's going yes and then do you just kind of stand there and then get out do you sit cross like what are you doing in your shower Chris teach me like washing like I'm like okay are you asking if I use a loofah well it sounds like if you only you don't use soap no no I said on my face oh groin armpits I'm soaping cool chest I didn't know that yeah because if there's dirt if I'm soiled boxers get soiled so then you're using soap absolutely oh okay okay yeah I would say I don't buy stuff that you were getting in the shower I'm trying to get a dove sponsorship and you're hurting me right now no no he uses soap I heard it here uh probably third fourth or fifth time um okay and then your face and then my face I just let it do you let it go under the water yeah of course water is good what about so you put sunscreen on it I do and you don't like cleanse that off ever well it cleanses off with the water in the shower right okay do you touch your face while it's under the water yes okay depends on how rough the day has been ah like you know or like and I also keep my showers really short and there's also this huge movement of take Ice Cold Shot 30 seconds because it's going to make it so powerful not 30 seconds but like five minutes less oh yeah okay no singing I've never sang I have if I'm gonna do a speech no I'm gonna do a speech I say the speech out loud oh okay so before my TED Talk I was saying it at the shower well that's what most of us do before speeches because a lot of us are like do giving speeches all the time uh but you got me excited it's just you know it wasn't the most relatable thing you've said um so I but you don't like have you ever sang in life I was in chorus up until fifth grade oh so in the 60s ish yes okay great um so okay great but you don't sing anymore no why not I'm not good at it prove it prove that I'm not good at it yeah they kicked me out of chorus in fifth grade oh no no that's not how I want you to prove it what do you mean that's how I prove it everyone in the room knows how I want you to be no one knows and there's no one here it's just me and you and if you see other people there's a great doctor I can recommend okay there's a huge audience in the room um okay fine so you're not gonna sing for us right now I'm gonna say what you're gonna say because if I did then people would unsubscribe and I'm not trying to have that happen why he doesn't sing but he does rap yeah all right so so one of them last year okay and I performed a 90-minute rap variety show and one of the parts was Iraq about vaccines okay three I don't remember the lyrics yeah you do my dear anti-vaxx Community let's have a little Unity start with a conversation about immunity wait what's you need to give me the meter no I don't know how to do this come on no come on come on oh Mike I won't come to see the show if I give them the route okay now so you you already gave me like that's three lines I give you a taste but not the whole pie okay so we're not gonna hurt so we're not gonna go through the whole thing but can we at least do it with a b no I'm sorry that was it wow can you fit this in your mouth Meghan Trainor what did you uh what did you can you fit this in your mouth because I probably can can you show us yeah if you'll rap oh my God to my beat for just the lines you already said no come on man that's it oh come on how is this enticing to me all right there's it's not really a win-win you just get to and then I have to replace the microphone before the next guest okay it's not insured it's not no sad sorry my dog is hairy that's okay I can tell um there was something Meghan Trainor you were saying Meghan Trainor yeah I was gonna say Meghan Trainor oh I wanted to ask you this is a passing thought I had earlier in the conversation that I think is worthwhile so you weren't listening to me not not whatsoever but if you had to pick a person who was no longer living to deliver coffee to who would you bring it to wow wow no one's asked me that before I also seen um maybe like Marilyn Marilyn Monroe who get out of your own apartment that's what about Marilyn Adams who's that don't [ __ ] we're not talking about the most iconic Marilyn who has ever lived there's a lot of iconic ones yeah but there's one that's more iconic than Olive and they would all probably agree I would probably agree to maybe except for Marilyn Manson he might oh yeah I think he's the most but Marilyn Monroe I would deliver to her and I wouldn't film it though I like her sorry I would want that to be a very like sorry I got excited um I would want that to be a very like I would want to I I say I would want to deliver coffee to her just because I would actually really want to like sit down pause does that mean you didn't actually want to sit down with all of the other people that's what it sounds like I think absolutely Chastain will be upset hearing that no no no and you know what the fun thing about Chastain was was we did sit down and have a full conversation before that well tell us actually and that's actually most of the only person I really haven't been able to actually spend time with was Austin and Kamala Harris okay because they're busy they're busy people Austin I got like five seconds with all the our entire time you saw was on camera wow Kamala we did talk for a second afterwards but about public policy no she actually ref she was telling me how much she liked my videos which I was really surprised about because I was like how what are you why are you watching these I mean I'm staff probably but thank you 100 well yeah but don't break the illusion what do you mean let me think about her like sitting and just watching no because then she's not preventing War right and that's her only job because she's not allowed to be a human no do you want your doctor in the operating room watching tick tocks at some point during his day I would love for him to decompress and he deserves that now she can watch Texas yeah I hope she does and her team definitely actually I hope she doesn't because I've heard Tick Tock spies on people and I don't want Tick Tock spying on the vice president of the United States yeah so I take it back I won't inspire me all they want why you know I I've already told the internet so much really what is there to find what's the uh thing that you've told the internet that you'd want to take back the most I don't want to take it back but my publicist did text me and said so when you told the story about having chlamydia three times I I just want to let you know that you know people are listening uh right there's an audience for this that you know it it this is this is not just to a few people um and so it's like you know some of the things you say have impact so just be aware he he was not very like you take it down but he was like be aware that these that that is now a headline on a different news article Chris Olsen has had committee idea three times here's why say it again Chris Olsen has had chlamydia three times here's why and do you know why saying it is incredibly positive in my eyes because no because and the stigma that's what I think yeah and that's actually what I said when I first said it in the video I say so I've had chlamydia three times and this stigma because end it also be safe be safe yeah 100 the goal of saying it is not to say go get an infection go get chlamydia no take that back oh that one will get chlamydia yes yes that's the message we want to heard and the message is if you do get an infection is not to feel shame about it no because shame equals not getting Medical Care hurting yourself mentally physically at times and we don't want that and perhaps transmitting it to others if you also if you're not getting tested and you don't know you have it exactly um and that's one of the biggest barriers to getting people tested because they're worried that they may have it right which but then that's the worst that's why we should go yeah exactly yeah that's that was actually one of the thing about getting on I think that was one of the benefits for me about getting on prep is to stay on it you have to be tested every three months which I feel like is a pretty good that's like a good time frame anyway for me as a human people that are listening um can you share what prep is and what was your decision making you may have to like expand on the things but from my understanding and I can't too if you don't want to do it it is a preventative for HIV that can also be used um if you do contract it I think it can okay let me do it right okay but I do know okay I'll I'll actually just share my own experience good so let me explain what prep is so they know what you're saying yes okay so prep is pre-exposure prophylaxis where before you're exposed to something you can get protection so with this we combine two medicines into one pill sometimes you can get it in a shot and this medicine decreases if you're exposed to the HIV virus 99 likelihood less of Contracting it 99 huge so very big yes and so I got on it um because well people like HIV can be prevalent in the gay community it was I mean obviously we had the AIDS crisis in the 80s it still is a thing um but with prep I think it's become um much more manageable for I guess the people who have it or but also preventative so anyway I took it as a way of like okay I'm a sexually active gay man now I want to be preventative and make sure I'm protecting myself from all the ways so I started taking it like it do you do you believe that it's all the way are you still protecting yourself in other ways because we still say yeah if you're using prep you should still use a condom totally I will say the adherence to my recommendation is probably low even though that's not what's recommended right but my job is to inform of risks and patients to make decisions for 100 as we said at the beginning you talked about that before yep great so that's important yeah um and then also what happens is and we need to counsel people on this that if you do take prep it doesn't protect you from all sexually transmitted infections exactly and that's why and that's why I found out I've I've had chlamydia three times okay got it but I've it's actually been very spread out and I I haven't gotten it recently safety but I the first time I ever got it I was like 15 and it was one of the first times I had ever been tested and it was like at that point when you're 15 and you're young and you hear you have chlamydia you're like that's like oh my God the world is ending so I'm dying um and I remember because I was a minor they like called my parents or something like that interesting it also could have been because I'm a junior and my dad's name is the same name as I so possibly I think when he answered the phone they were like we're looking for Chris Olsen and he was like hi um yeah that was interesting news for him yeah so I I got it and then I had to have my antibiotics like uh shipped to the boarding school that I was at at the time and then I took them and then after you take your antibiotics for two weeks you're you're free you did two weeks of them maybe it wasn't two weeks okay how long did I do I mean it depends when how old were you I was 15 the first time depends okay I'll leave it at depends because it depends if they give you is that they're mycena doxycycline and there's different timetables yeah I don't know it could have been all of them I doubt it was all right no um but the reality of STIs is they carry so much stigma and they get classified into these embarrassing diseases that they shouldn't be and I actually have a video that I'm trying to write and film called embarrassing diseases that shouldn't be yeah that list is like herpes and things that people get really afraid of Right Where I'm like this will probably have no impact on your life outside of an outbreak every now and then and even that can be decreased significantly with the medication yeah isn't there a medication that first impressive there because also when you're not when you're not having an outbreak then you can't then you don't transmit it or you almost likelihood if you truly have no outbreak and no outbreak incoming yes you can transmit it but if the outbreak is imminent like if it's a bad out to happen yes wow there's a possibility there okay I found so that's why we don't want to say if there's no lesions you're good it's like most of the time you're good yes but I do think the stigma should be ended and there was a little bit of discourse in that comment section because a lot of people because some people were like oh you're you're making it you're like promoting being unsafe during that and I was like no no no like I I'm promoting testing I think that's all there's like and people as I'm sure you know as a doctor like people are going to do what they want at the end of the day like you can't control another person and so but all you can do is encourage them like okay if you're not gonna like always be safe when you're doing sexual activity or something like that just go get just you're talking about risk reduction yes because as you were talking about the uh AIDS epidemic of the 80s there was some school of thought that said you should just not have sex and that's the messaging doctors are allowed to say because that's the correct messaging that's how we fight back against this and we saw that fail terribly right and we we realize okay there's got to be like Risk reduction mitigation methods we don't just say flat out it's zero or a hundred they're Shades of Gray yeah yeah yeah so that's what I was trying to I mean I'll also when I was making the video I there wasn't even that much analyzation behind it like that's how I'm gonna start the video I was like that's a funny way to start the video so I'm gonna do it and then there it goes okay from there what did you take from your three experiences of having chlamydia did you learn more about the Health Care System how it worked did you have any troubles getting treatment no I guess I did I I by the first time you kind of by the time you're in the doctor's office and they're like oh we're just prescribing these antibiotics like the high stakes nature of it all kind of finally goes down because you're like oh okay I'm gonna be okay they you if you correct me if I'm wrong and I think if you're living if you're not living with it for a very long time there really aren't many serious there can't there's see this is how hard medicine is yeah see this yeah yeah like my God the way you have to speak yeah anyway um I'm not even gonna finish that sentence because it could be wrong but I figure you say it on the way you do it by the way is you say it on the other spectrum that if you're living with undiagnosed STIs that can breed problems right like if you have long-standing untreated uh gonorrhea yes that can lead to arthritis yes I remember looking it up because once I found once I found out I had it I was like what are what's gonna happen to me and infection can spread yes that's a problem yes and so I all three times I've had it I've been from what I know asymptomatic as well like I've never I've never actually felt that I've had it in whatever way which is why screening and testing is so important yes exactly and so that's why when I I'm like okay great and and then you go and they prescribe you the antibiotics and really so by the second and third time I think it was I was more just like okay I got this okay you know what's your relationship like with Healthcare in general like do you have a good relationship with your doctor [Music] um yeah I well here's the thing I haven't found I haven't like started with since I've since I've like left College in Boston I haven't started with it like a new dog like we don't have a primary I don't have a primary oh so how do you get Healthcare now um like when I needed to get re-prescribed prep I liked I did it I did um Telehealth yeah what about an outside of that outside of that I still go to my same dentist back in the DC area that's home okay but that's different yeah Healthcare yeah dentist is like doctor or something right well yeah it's just not the world I live in so I was just curious okay oh I don't I can I have a bump on your skin your knee hurt who do you go see I don't I don't really and that's and that was actually something that my last like when I was in a relationship last he was like if you're still because I'm 25 so I'm still on my dad's insurance for another year he's like yeah I know and then I will have to switch it up he's like but I was with him from ages 22 to 24. so I was very very much on it the whole time and he was like if I were if I like readily had insurance that I wasn't paying for like every time something happened to me I would go get a checkup at a doctor for some reason I one thankfully like knock on wood I know I'm not feeling too bad most of the time um that's great yeah but two I guess like if I get if I'm starting to feel I'll go to an Urgent Care thing something like that you hate it you're so mad you're so mad at me okay okay these are my disappointment right right it's and and listen and it's not because and it's not because I it's not because I don't like you and it's this isn't personal um and it's not because I I'm not offended by it right right I'm upset because you could be getting better care a hundred percent yeah I agree with you and why do you agree because you're right why because I could be why because like I have I'm on my dad's insurance and there's probably so many lovely doctors around Los Angeles or New York City I'm sitting in front of one right now but what what benefit would you get by seeing them like you're saying it's better but I'm curious um do you believe that or are you just saying that because I'm here partly because you're here but I guess I do I think there's a lot of worth in having a relationship with someone as a doctor that like you can feel like you trust them more so if there are things you want to say you know me and so I can trust you more if I'm going to an Urgent Care person and maybe it's something like an STD or it's something that feels more vulnerable to talk about I think I and probably other people would feel a little more resistant because it's definitely better with continuity yeah like my doctor who was my uh what's it called when you're a child doctor nutrition yeah my pediatrician who was with me until I was like 18 by the time he was the first one to give me all the STD testing and everything and like by the time I'm um like I was 18 and still going to him like I feel like I couldn't you know he know he's known me my entire life I can really talk to him it's kind of like my my the worth I find in a therapist as well it's tough when you first start going to one because you have to kind of go through your life story and get comfortable with them but then when you have them for a while you can go but my I guess my thought with it it is similar to my the my friends thought with having a therapist because when I convinced someone to go connect with the therapist they're like it's just like I just don't know where to start like I'm I and then starting and going and having to tell your whole life story all of the things and I'm like yeah but you have to start and then a few months from now or even weeks you'll feel comfortable and like you're going and I'm just in that spot with the doctor of being like yeah but I I have this I have the the Urgent Care and so where am I supposed to just begin got it I the I don't I completely agree with you that the process sucks and it's not easy to find a good primary and you're moving around a lot so you're busy like I am these are all very reasonable places for you to be the reason why I really push for people especially Young Folks to get a primary is obviously the reason that you said to have a better line of communication with someone that follows them throughout their life especially me I'm a family medicine doctor so I treat kids and adults so like I've had patients that I've been seeing since they were 15 and now they're 21 and I'm still seeing them that's that's a beautiful thing to watch someone go through on stages and know who they are and the impact that I had on them as a doctor when they were 15 I'm seeing the benefits today which is right very rewarding right but then there's things that we can do in health care that can prevent problems so like Urgent Care can be great to fill a need and devoid of the moment not needing to go to the ER because you don't need emergent surgery or you're like bleeding out or something but you have an acute problem and your primary might be super busy that day you can get into an urgent care right right it could be totally appropriate yeah but then for more lifestyle focused things where you can improve the likelihood of this issue returning uh get counseling on the issue of what risks you face by continuing to do certain things getting vaccines cancer screenings all those things don't really happen in Urgent Care Centers no totally so that's why the primary so there's some things that we can truly prevent and mitigate risk on and then some things we can just have an open conversation yeah no I I believe and everything I think you're saying is correct okay um so right and so I'm gonna and yeah so you'd consider it I would that's my goal to get you into the from the pre-contemplation to the contemplation I also do like I do hope to um actually I do want a primary care doctor like that's the thing I think too that's um with these urgent care places you're always like okay this temporary temporary temporary but sometimes temporary can last so long that it becomes especially how convenient it is right right but Health Care like valuable long-term Life Health Care can't be convenient like that and I think it's also to your point moving around all the time and the past few years have been crazy with the pandemic and everything so I was like locked down in one place and then I moved to another and now I'm back and forth so but now that I feel like I have more Roots there's no need to even excuse the actions it's just about what to do moving forward right yeah and in this case like I would love for you to find someone and find someone modern who that when you are moving around you can have a Telehealth visit with your primary yes like that'd be awesome yes that does feel great so I would be excited for you to do that and I'm also glad that you brought up your therapist and you've talked openly about your therapy you've even shown some interactions I sure have with your therapist on Tick Tock yes how did you decide to do that because that's like everyone's biggest fear probably well and that's and I guess that was part of how I was able to share it because I I I'm so not scared of therapy because I've been in it for so long so it's so I want to say maybe the first session I went to I must have been like 13. so it's been like 12 ish years now um so I I've been in therapy for so long that it feels so like destigmatized in my mind but I know it can be a thing for everyone else anyway I had a one therapy session that I was like this is like we had so many we got to we touched the Deep things of the week and all of that but also there were so many like funny moments in here like maybe next week I'm just gonna record it back also because I think there's worth and like watching back some of the things that you should say and stuff like that and just being were you doing that before you were shooting the tick tocks no I would write about them afterwards but not like do a full like Journal video of it yeah yeah okay um because she kind of had that idea like a while back but so then I started doing the recording of them and then I remember the first time I recorded it and just being like yeah there's like good stuff here and also I'm if you watch them like I'm never really sharing the moments that are really personal to me that are the ones that are like um like if something's very vulnerable and going on in my life I'm not just gonna be like okay well that's on the internet but I'm also I'm still sharing Parts where you know I can sometimes get emotional but also the funny parts and the parts that are more light-hearted because those all exist in therapy like the entire Spectrum I think it's it's important to find a therapist not that you're friends with like I think if there it can be there's a line of like you know the truly doctor patient but also that you still feel very comfortable with that you can have a little bit of a banter with because then as you get to the Deep Parts you don't feel like there's that barrier up already and so I started sharing those and I remember like for the most part I think a lot of people watch those and it's like a nice little laugh for their day and that's it but I think there are a lot of people who um it kind of like took that stigma away from therapy or it made them feel like oh this is how therapy therapy can be it can be more of something that's it's not as scary of a thing and I remember like someone like then being out in public people have come up to me and been like I got back into therapy because of those or I started therapy because of those videos and so then I always kind of try to remember with that and with a lot of my content is that like these whatever you're mentioning like like the the chlamydia thing even if for the most part most people are just having a little laugh at your video there are a few people out there who it can be a much deeper thing for them and so the therapy videos they're they continue to be funny and I continue to like hope to make people laugh from them but I also hope that people can continue getting into it because it isn't if it like uh it isn't as scary as I think it is the big battle of it is beginning yeah I'm feeling like oh I have to I have to it takes a while to get there to get to that spot that like Chris is in with his therapist but like I'm never gonna get there if I don't start true not to sound like a therapist but how does it make you feel when people come up to you and tell you that you've changed their lives in that way oh it's like well it's kind of unfathomable in a way because you you're it's that parasocial relationship of someone who I don't know who has a full relationship with me coming up to me and being like I my life has changed because of you like yesterday I was in a Starbucks wow I was meeting someone at the Starbucks yeah nobody was in a Starbucks it was right before Jessica Justine because she wanted Starbucks and so we had to get a Starbucks but did she turn down your brand no she took it oh you didn't watch the video no right um no but she has a Starbucks and then also takes that coffee but yesterday I was in a Starbucks uh meeting up with her team before we went and a girl turns around and starts crying because she saw me and she's like I just well you change my life all of these things and it is so beautiful and I hold space um I'm never I don't find myself becoming like I find myself in that now I need to take care I'm like it's okay like I we got that like I'm like I I try to ask about their day I'm like I'm trying to normalize the situation but it's also I think I I'm able to process it more after the fact and I'm more like that it brings me so much joy to know that someone is impacted in such a deep way um and that yeah they they've been able to like in in a moment of their own Darkness they've been able to find some light through anything that I've been doing because I feel like I find so much like I find so much joy out of the things that I'm doing as well and so um it's like we're both giving it to each other yeah in a way does that impact your thought process for your future content like yes and no I think it always I I I'm never it's not too often that I really go into a video being like this is the impact I want to for it to hit I think I find that after the fact um which I think is a good thing I think if I were going in with too much intention of changing people um then it might be almost like artificial yeah it'll be artificial it's like too self-aware in a way and I go in always just with the more simpler thought of like to bring joy and to be yourself to bring joy to be myself and then if something good comes out of it you celebrate it right right and so then when I'm surprised by the further impact that it has then um it makes me then I then I know like okay I should just keep doing what I'm doing yeah rather than okay now I need to think more about this because if it's already happening through my relatively lighter thought process of it then like if I were to change that then then it becomes such official when you say unfathomable I also think about how unnatural it is to have someone watching over your life and I do not know anything about their life but still want to be nice and affordable but how difficult it is to genuinely be in that position right and you try to get to know them in that in that those few well it's like the art of dating like if you see someone across the room that you are attracted to there's nothing honest you can go to say to them right outside that you find them attractive right right because that's which is the then the problem with dating apps yeah because all of them are just based off of looks yes not that it's something that I'm like anti-dating apps I am no I'm on one but um they they can yeah it's based off of looks and as as much as much of life is you know like we we that's the first thing we perceive people with and all that stuff but um yeah I'm not I don't try to I don't try to like build too much off of the the things that I'm doing it just kind of just come from here um the thing I wanted to emphasize that you talked about was in getting to know your therapist and not crossing a line I think that point is so important because the number one thing that decides success between a patient and their therapist is not their degree it's not whether their counselor social worker psychologist psychiatrist Family Medicine doctor it's the connection that they have and you can't really qualify or quantify what that means on a paper yeah it's just go for your first session and think about it like a first date right right and see if this is a good fit whatever that means for you yes and if for whatever reason you don't feel it's a good fit go to see someone else and it's totally fine that's expected by yeah yeah most therapists have probably had like I have probably had more first sessions that then don't continue but then like yeah because they can only have so many people anyway on their roster um but yeah it's it's it's like you're you are you have the you have the power in that moment I think that's what people are um like scared of too or they're just like I just feel like I don't know like what am I gonna talk about all of it it's like whatever you want to bring to the table for this first session you're in charge yeah like it's not you're going to see someone who's gonna tell you what to do right and then I have the flip side some patients be like what am I going to do just talk about my feelings well go and see if that's what ends up happening maybe you won't at all right and it'll be all practical stuff yeah a lot of the time with my sessions like the first few minutes of the session anyway are just like talking about my day yeah or like telling a funny story that I was like and you've been doing this therapy consistently for the 12 years right there have been like well mostly consistent yeah yeah yeah the reason I say that is not everyone who goes to therapy or needs therapy will need it for 12 years no you could be going through a rough patch and having an adjustment situation right where you need support right now and to think through something and that's totally okay in fact my therapist almost like kicked me out of therapy after we've done enough time and we've gone through the issue that I was working on and we kind of were reaching a roadblock where we were like I don't have anything hey we don't have anything right now so it's okay let's come back when you have something wow yeah and that's a very therapist who do that need to be applauded right because they're they're doing it for the right reasons especially if you're paying them yeah right because then they're like yeah I'm not going to get paid but you know where you you have done the work here yeah no I've and I've had different therapists throughout the years but I've had this most recent one that I've had for to like well five years with like a year off in there so I guess four total but we've been working together for a long time that's awesome um so yeah I think there's a lot of worth in like just connecting with one but also just like you said it does it's not this thing that has to be like and now I'm gonna do therapy forever no but if it feels but if that also feels like something that you might need or that's helpful then do it forever the goal of doctors is really to Number One support right validate all of those things but also to give tools so that you can make decisions on your own and not need a doctor all the time right like when patients come in with a musculoskeletal injury their knee hurts their back hurts my goal isn't just to like diagnose real quick give a treatment run out the door it's also to give some education as to how I'm thinking about this what I would be concerned about what are some red flag things so the next time they're like oh no the doctor told me what I should be looking out for this will probably go away I'm comfortable waiting yeah we're cutting down the use of Health Care System cutting down how many times you need to go spend with a doctor and it's like a win-win-win yeah so what what tools did your therapist teach you um well at the start she was very like it was definitely very intense and it was very like we are we're very emotional yeah emotional but also like um she's not a therapist that's just there to like listen and agree like if I say something or if I'm going through something and I'm not in the right or if there's like a way I should have dealt with something in a different way she'll let me know interesting and she she but less so now because I think now I hopefully I guess always do the work that we no not I'm always more right but I'm I'm now doing that work in my head before I've even got into the session I'm like yeah I did this and I I should have reacted in in this way but I think I was doing that because I felt this like I'm now able to kind of sometimes analyze too far because she's like yeah Chris it also just sounds like you were maybe sad that day and I'm like um yeah like I have to like I I've just over analyzed every every scenario but early on she was very like [Music] um she would it was almost like prioritize like how are you in the wrong in this situation because I think a lot of the time at least I guess who I was but I think sometimes humans can be very like we can tend to tend to lean towards like thinking of the ways we're a victim in a situation which is okay because a lot of the time we're always trying to be right we're trying to operate with love or in the right way so when most of us are trying to do that then when something goes wrong of course it's not our instinct to be like what did I do like it's our instinct to protect ourselves hey I'm always a good person though so like it has to be the other people um and so I think she is help has helped me go to the other side of being like yes you are usually you're you are operating operating out of good intentions but that doesn't mean that encompasses a hundred percent of your actions and sometimes your good intention for yourself might have a negative effect on someone else um in whatever way that it does and so I think I've I've now tried I find more of the middle ground with her of being like of of analyzing while my intention may have been good the action may have caused this and then this might have been what happened so she was pretty she was really tough on me really early on and now I feel like we're we're evened out and I know and and also we've talked about how sometimes like the toughness maybe wasn't needed or she like she has she actually apologized to me for some of the early sessions because she was like I think you know there were parts that you didn't need for the way that we talked about things there while it also was effective we're you're a human dealing with feelings like you never know when you're going too far to one side of the spectrum until you gone there and so now we try to like because I was on one side and she full she like flung me all the way to the other and so we're like okay now let's find the middle ground I'm also a very black and white person I'm an extremist in so many of the things that I do and so like I feel like so much of our work is finding gray areas so you're like thriving in the sea of nuance wow that's beautiful just like your eyes thank you blue like the sea speaking of my eyes do you ever masturbate what you never heard of masturbation no what is this what when you force yourself to do something you don't want to do but in reality you're choosing to do it yes must wait so you wake up in the morning and you're like I have to go to work I must do this and then you're just like yeah masturbate you like that transition though yeah well so speaking is this like very soon no no but here here's here's the thing though if we were really we're really speaking of the true meaning of masturbate then that sentence didn't make sense why speaking of my eyes do you ever masturbate yeah I agree it didn't make a lot of difference exactly unless I know where you were trying to go I wasn't trying to go no no because you I wish I heard the word I'm not a good interviewer this is only like my 14th podcast so I'm trying my best here this is only your 14th you're doing great thank you I don't know if you really mean that no no no I think your body language changed and you covered up no I didn't yeah you kind of went like this I didn't I don't know my hands were like this that's not a full cover I was like you're doing yeah you're doing great whoa he's a liar but it's like you're doing great I also I would have thought you've done more than this thank you yeah I mean you're probably native to content yeah right so that's like yeah part of it you're talking to people all day but you're you're pretty native to the content land you've like I said before but I reacted for a long time when did you start doing this five years ago five years ago like all of this really huh I feel like I saw you as a child Maybe not maybe as a doctor oh probably not where have you lived New York all your life yes oh yeah no oh sorry anyway interesting I don't know where you've seen me otherwise I had my fire moment started in 2015. I guess that was eight years ago but I didn't have social media like a hot doctor yeah wow so eight years ago you were 17. I was 17. no I didn't agree to the terms I agreed to the headline right wait what was the headline People magazine sexiest doctor life oh my God that was the first thing that ever happened to you well BuzzFeed wrote it check out this hot doctor and then People magazine it where and where did BuzzFeed find you Instagram because what were you posting um I was like into fitness like I was in the kind of shape you're in now oh sorry about that anymore you're not um I was for my fight in October well I appreciate you knowing what kind of shape I'm in that's so sweet of you I mean that was my next topic Oh but before we go into the topic of your abs can we talk about your masturbation or potential masturbation okay explain the term again okay do you ever find yourself work-wise relationship I have to do this I have to because I do that also called shudding on yourself yes yes um yes I'm definitely a people pleaser which so that tends to when someone else would want something out of me then I I feel like I must like I feel like I do it often um but I think I I think over the years I found better boundaries with um what I feel like I have to do and what I feel like um I'm I'm allowed to like take a break from or to care for it like I mean the whole journey with content I think has been many in in and out like ins and outs because when I started it I was making churning out the videos I was making so many of them and I was like always just trying to find the new thing and then along the way I was like oh this yeah this doesn't feel sustainable like I want to find more of a balance and over time the balance has become less just posting less and less videos because the when you're doing content for a while the work you do outside of the videos one ramps up so like so now I have less capacity to do the videos because a lot of other things are going on but also like I want I want them to continue to be quality so let me like put more like you're pacing yourself let me Pace myself like even last year I was still posting every day during the week and now I post when I feel like I want to post good when I feel good about it because there's always something that I'm doing work-wise that day anyway so it's not like I'm like oh and now I never post and I just kind of sit around all day like I've somehow and like if some people ask like what are you what's your day today I I can't really I don't really know because it's always different but somehow I am busy like somehow I don't seem to have time to like why somehow I don't know because I yeah like you're doing you're involved in so many Ventures you're an entrepreneur sure yeah but I I guess I also right right I'm able I also see myself from the outside perspective of just those tick tocks and I'm like if you're only making that all day what else are you doing but I'm like I am why are you judging yourself based off someone else's misconception I know himself gaslighting yeah don't do that yeah no okay done it's gone uh I actually showed myself this morning okay because I had to go to box and I didn't want to and I said I gotta go I must go oh I'm like wait should yourself yeah oh yeah that was your turn yes yeah yes so I then reframed it and did the thing that my therapist talked to me about and I said okay wait am I do I have to go to boxing do I must go or do I want to go to oh oh cause like what am I going for boxing for I'm going because I want to be a better boy yeah like you signed up to do it like you were there was obviously there was a version of you that was well yes but also like what is the goal to go and the goal is to get better at boxing do I want that yes I want then I want to go great then go so I went and you did what time is it 8 30. oh okay yeah that's okay yeah but I I understand well yeah it's like well by 8 30 this morning I was just eating a bagel and so I wouldn't have wanted to a half a loaf depending on if you feel the fact checking here we're gonna fact check that afterwards so yeah um tell me about your abs okay how'd you get them what do you want um I've actually I I let me actually pull up a photo I've kind of always I'm gonna pull up a photo from a long time ago I've kind of always been um lean in a little bit of a way like I've I think I've almost always had a little bit of an AB which I think makes it easier for people so genetic yeah see that little guy oh he's got some ABS yeah and Boogie Board yeah and Boogie Board to the camera to the no one in the audience um but I yeah I think I've I've always had them a little bit okay but maintaining them into your 20s is hard yes 100 oh no I work I do work out I do work out I got really into like I went to boarding school and I started working out for the first time there because I had a little gym and when I was growing up I had to play a lot of sports because my dad was just like you're gonna play sports so I did um and then so I was I Still Into Fitness so I started doing it in high school and then I think I started getting fit but it wasn't until I was I want to say like 20 and I got a job at equinox working at the kids club um taking care of the kids so I got a free free membership and as a broke college student I was like this is the best place ever so I'm going to go to Equinox every day and really work out and that's when I really started like um enjoying that and I stopped drinking when I was 19 which obviously really like flushes out all of the all of the things and so um I want to like yeah it was like age 20 21 that I was like I've started working out like six days a week our work or hour half like you know I was kind of doing it all it started of just like most of the basic things of like I would have a back uh back and biceps day of triceps and chest day a shoulders day and a like complementary muscles most of the uh what's what they're called the vanity ones um yeah so I would do that and then I would I always did a lot of cardio because I've always the cardio has is the part of Fitness that feels really good to me okay I really like weight they get a runner's high yeah okay not well actually I like after I've run that's when the runner's high supposedly oh yeah see someone told me that it was when you're during it and I was like I never feel great I'm not loving while I'm running I mean some people love the idea of escaping and being running but like that's not the runner's height we're talking about the Endorphin after yes that feels great because then I'm like wow I really just did that so I started working out a lot then um and so I would it would be very standard workouts because I was just working out at equinox and then when um when the pandemic first hit kind of stopped working out and I ended up getting very like very skinny that's what ended up happening which is wild because like yeah I that that that's how my body anatomically worked it was like we're not working out we're gonna get skinny um and so then when I got back into it I started doing a lot of group fitness classes and all of those things but now I'm kind of back to working out just like on my own and as we know abs are made mostly in the kitchen so what's your diet like it's the worst part though I'm not because I I don't I don't eat the best first of all let's take the Judgment out of it every morning let's take the job okay great great I guess there is Judgment usually because a lot of the time when someone's like how do you what are you eating because you have this I'm like uh it's this or this well you could just like I don't watch it that well yeah I don't watch it that well I'm not eating like I'm not going out of my way and I'm not getting like are you counting calories macros types of foods anything but I do I do kind of consistently eat the same thing every day okay so in the morning I have a bacon egg and cheese bagel okay lunch is either switches between like a salad or like a sweet green or like an acai bowl or just like something lighter because sometimes sometimes I also miss lunch not because I'm trying to intermittent fast or anything I just like lunch never I guess because my my half a loaf of bread in the morning really still digestion keeps me go going through it is the bacon egg and cheese on a bagel oh that's right okay sorry go ahead yeah and then dinner does switch up but I feel like it's usually something that has some protein in it like a chicken or um like if I go out like a steak or a burger or something like that like usually something that has a little bit of protein in it but it's definitely not like I'm not trying to I don't find the cleanest diet um I'm I'm not usually watching it um and I'll laugh about myself yeah that's honest I I I'm actually glad you say that isn't that funny that sure enjoy this I mean I truly I I eat what I enjoy that's great that's what and the reason why I'm excited about it is because most people that would have your body would then go and say nah you gotta do this right and then my patients would do it and I'd be like that's not why they have that no because every single body is also different because I know like I know this I know friends with all different types of bodies who are eating very healthy and they're not getting the results they want or eating horribly and they have the result the exact result that they want and so I've no I've never been a person cool and a lot of the time also when people ask me if they're asking for advice or like what should I do I'm like well because what are you doing I'm like what I'm doing I don't know like that's great it could work out it might not work for you thank you no seriously you don't understand how much in the influencer space is exact opposite of this well I'm sure yeah but I don't I don't I'm not trying to I because I I don't have the knowledge of exactly what worked for me I just know what I've done and I I we know that everyone is different yeah so what uh do you take any supplements or believe in anything like that yes what do you do take some zinc in the morning why zinc um because it's supposed to prove like it for your immune system okay right I'm just gonna listen oh oh God I hate this I take a probiotic okay um because Megan takes one that she's influenced me and she was like it it makes her [ __ ] every morning and she was like do it okay um and it it works pretty well okay maybe that's also just me um you mean maybe just [ __ ] in the morning probably so but after the probiotic it was great um so I take uh zinc a probiotic vitamin D and then I just started also taking some magnesium because people said it helps calm you down when you say people someone on tick tock foreign [Laughter] [Music] loves urgent cares take supplements based on Tick Tock recommendations I mean listen the algorithm has told him it's best I'm honest with you and so that people can be I'm and listen you don't hear me saying and you should do it too like I'm not trying to influence anyone on something I'm doing and yeah I'm usually not trying to do that like I'm usually just kind of like talking sure um but anyway uh yeah so I started taking some magnesium and I will say I get very nervous before I like go um on like a talk show or I go speak somewhere or something like that oh so relatable mm-hmm I wasn't trying to be relatable I was I was just pointing that out because you pointed it out earlier sure so I get really actually stage fright is relatable So it's talking in the shower okay great and that's what I was saying so I and I had I took my magnesium that morning and I oddly felt a little calmer before going on that one okay is it horrible should I not be taking that I'm not your doctor you said you were gonna stay quiet until the end I just thought I was gonna stay quiet so you're not gonna tell me anything about the supplements that I take no I mean what would you like to know about the supplements like am I doing anything uh actively negative by taking this if one I'm gonna do hypothetical okay if one was to take several supplements hoping that it would improve certain areas of their health I foresee a couple of problems arising oh problem number one they forego good medical care for the problems that they actually have that could be treatable sure two they could be taking supplements that have Trace toxins in them and when I say toxins I've got heavy metals things like that and that's been found in like protein powders and all these other things um and then also they could be just flushing a lot of money down the toilet with their urine I do know that one I do know that multivitamins some say not me that multivitamins are a scam so I don't take any of those do you take any supplements nope I occasionally will take some protein if I don't eat soap and that's what I'm saying right um you take proteins sometimes but like a very clean protein I mean the gold standard way like so oh yeah like I don't overthink it great yeah so that's and okay again I in my line of work I could be really pushing some [ __ ] I could be selling some supplements you totally could be like yeah I know what I'm talking about the biomechanical process because I could tell you how boosting certain vitamin levels can cure certain diseases dot dot dot dot in mice right oh Chris is not a mouse such I'm not so why would I tell you about that study yeah right and yet that's how you wouldn't have to finish the whole thing yeah yeah right right wow because a lot of these supplement companies make a lot of bogus claims and they don't just make bogus claims because the FDA will crack down on really bad claims like they say this cures this the FDA will step in but a lot of them are really sharp and they say like vitamin C is important for immune health wow and that statement is accurate sure yeah but does taking your thing that you're selling me improve my thing right right no and also because you're a doctor you could use just a lot of words that like people might not understand to sell the product because and they might enjoy my eyes and they might say let me buy this and I refuse to do it right so have you ever done an ad a brand deal yes of course not for supplements right right right or not for things that are [ __ ] but like for companies like audible's a partner because I encourage people to read Thrive marketing as a partner to get healthy foods delivered to your door like things that make sense yes if I like a clothing company I'm going to do like yeah right right okay that makes sense I'm just not gonna use my medical license to trick people into taking BS no no and there's a lot of people who are very good at doing that right right and it it's Unique in that people on both ends of the spectrum of finances get the worst advice yeah people who are struggling financially oftentimes don't have money to see a doctor or to pay for their medication so they get bad care and then people who are very wealthy that are celebrity they will get doctors recommending them BS to make money or they come in demanding something the doctor feels like they're obliged to give them whatever they need if it's not healthy so both sides are getting bad care it's a unique Spectrum wow yeah also there aren't too many I guess there aren't that many um like well maybe I'm just not well versed in the in the area of but like doctor content creators so there's a lot there are a lot and I would assume maybe some of them are selling the supplement oh for sure that for sure they may not even really believe in but that is that is I guess the whole well they believe in it oh they do well they believe that it makes their wallet a little bit thicker sure sure which I guess is also the whole thing of the like the the plight of the influencer as well of of regardless of what uh thing you're in um or what like Niche or what you know yeah what yeah um I think some people still can sometimes agree to things that they I have no belief in or that it's just it's purely for the money yeah and I think that's where finding more of like the genuine the the genuine connection that you have with the things I feel like that's changed a little bit over the last few years where before you could just see any celebrity that was on Big Brother or whatever um whatever love Island come on and say this is the magic but like now people have kind of become wise to it I don't know like you didn't do this you had surgery why are you lying like now there's pushed back because social media create a layer of transparency around it yes yes so that's kind of cool yeah because people yeah there's people people talk more and people are connected to so many like understanding the industries that we are all in is so much easier because you have people in those Industries talking about the industries online for sure yeah my last question before we go to the lightning round and it's not the lightning rounds I'm actually going to check your reflexes um is are you in love no because you have a love bracelet oh um no this was given to me by my mom for so you are in love yes watch my family why did you discount your mom because I guess I was considering just romantic love no there's many layers of love tell us about the love you have for your mom um she's lovely she's a wonderful she gave this to me because it's not like you're being sarcastic she's lovely because I was like caught off guard um sorry yeah Mom's great like what how do you talk about your love for your family she just talk about it like you're talking to her this is so we just went we just like we did such a big U-turn that's good um she's she's this keeps you honest she's she's a now I'm about to just describe her like I'm like um why do you love her because she's a very honest strong woman who has done so much work on herself mentally emotionally all of the things and is also consistently doing that work and it's like knowing that it's it's going to be a journey for the rest of life that we should always be trying to better ourselves and I think she always operates out of love um which is a beautiful thing she always has really wonderful intentions we had many many great memories growing up that's awesome I lost my mom so it's nice to hear this oh I'm sorry to hear that yeah no she's she's great um she's also on her like World traveler Vibe right now so she's been going like all over South America over the past few months um nice and just like exploring because she can work I'm having cool coffees having cool coffees yes not yours no I don't think she's been able to have mine yet oh she's been out of the country yeah you know what's funny on my high school yearbook you know you're allowed to like write something like a statement you know no mindset what shout out to moms oh oh I've always wrote that yeah there's something wrong with that for a long time oh okay kind of the message right all right sure okay great shout out to moms so there you go you did it it's great she might hear this yes she probably will I think she listens to like everything that's awesome except God and which but sometimes I'm trying to think here I am talking about chlamydia talking about all other things which is fine like again no Stigma um but you know with your parents sometimes it's like yeah that's awkward don't even perceive me doing anything sexual ever never are you ready check your reflexes okay okay your phone's down there are you gonna throw it at me yes okay here we go oh okay sorry um healthiest part of your body my mind shout out to the therapist one part of your body that you wish you could replace oh um that I wish I could replace can I say like my I could say anything you want like I don't I don't so I guess I would be my legs like I wish they were a little longer not that I don't know because then I would be disproportional I guess just my height like I wish I were a little taller your skeletal system my skeletal system okay but also I'm happy with my height and I'm not mad I'm like actually interestingly enough like height is mostly contributed by your long bones yeah skeletal system so you could say the extension of your lung bone sure sorry what's one thing that raised your blood pressure this week got you mad got me mad God I didn't really I don't get mad too often got me mad I mean not like throwing stuff mad but like I will say right what gave you the ick right this didn't give me the ick but it maybe raised my blood pressure right before I got here I've been in like a slight situation chip for a guy over the past with a guy for over the past three months ever since the end of Thanksgiving and I got a text like right before I got here that was like would you mind if we talked later and so you don't know so no I do know I know what this is gonna be we're ending this situation chip and that's fine but I was in a very as I was like coming up the elevator I was like okay get out of that mindset because you need to you you better be in a better place and then you sat down we started talking about secretions and secretions and yeah so that but that picture no 100 like I I there was a conscious moment halfway through this where I was like oh great I wasn't even thinking about that I feel good but that did raise my blood pressure right before I got here understandable um what is the smallest bone in your body medical trivia I'm I'm gonna can you can you tell me if I'm hot or cold because I'm gonna guess it's actually not something in your hands or your feet correct because those seem too easy [Music] it is something it's the V it's a in your neck is that your and it's at the very top of it and it's your nose it's your nose and no it's not that no it's not that no um okay wait your teeth no those are those aren't well wait I know that's why I was saying that um there it's in your knee elbow and your knees let's see how long you can guess before you get the body part this is great okay wait really yeah okay this isn't meant to make you look bad this is a question I don't care that I don't know this right now uh actually oh God that sounded so rude why I just but it's not something I've ever studied that's what I'm saying this is not supposed it's not in your hands it's not common knowledge it is a but your knee no not neck face no so stomach chest no what I've named all of them no wait your soul yes yes it's in your ear in your ear that was what I was gonna say next yeah really yeah where is it in your ear but where in your ear inner ear oh yeah it's like it vibrates in there um that was probably way too complicated wow what it needed to be have you ever almost died um like are truly almost died I don't think so [Music] I don't think so good I'm gonna yeah I was a I was a pretty crazy 17 to 19 year old like with uh like you know the substances and all of those things and so there was probably times I got pretty close but I I won't remember them okay yeah I'm glad you didn't die and I'm glad you came today I'm so glad thank you so much thank you yeah did you could you have fun I had so much fun was it different than you would have expected um yes because I feel like we we really got into the um it was you know we analyzed but I still made you laugh which is all I like yeah absolutely yeah all right well um thank you where do you want folks to find you well they should check out flight fuel if they haven't yet yes flight fuelcoffee.com um but also I'm on Tick Tock as Chris just at Chris c-h-r-a-s because there are other ways to spell it apparently and I'm on Instagram at Chris Olson and on YouTube Chris Olsen did you also see the drama that you and I had on Tech talk not too long ago yes because you said on my way to dinner with Chris which was Hemsworth haven't heard of him um and a lot of people thought it was me yeah that was cute but here we are now yeah so we got you have to make it we have to make something I'll invite Chris Hemsworth next time we hang out oh okay that would be insane sure yeah great I know Chris pretty well though so this will be fine yeah you know you and Megan and Chris always hanging out yes often in Australia here's Australia he is right right accent great accent cool and on that note thank you thank you that's great seemed like the interview knocked you out because you didn't want to participate in his Tick Tock that he was shooting on the living room what do you mean he dances a lot and I don't know how to dance so that ended it was a hardcore dance too hardcore dance and you did a hardcore dance today when you were boxing that's true I actually got hit a lot but that's okay yeah that's one thing good interview though it was good he tries to downplay his strengths but he has many of those and the way he shares them with people is very useful I think we need to do that more often I love his genuineness like he's like I don't know anything about dieting so I'm not going to make recommendations that's what we need yeah he was funny he didn't feel fake that he felt very real I felt really bad he said that he had that text from that guy just as he showed up like who knows oh no that could totally throw you for the whole yeah but he was cool for the interview so that's good yeah and the uh the STI conversation I thought was really really valuable really really ground like the interview was really sort of silly up top and then it we really grounded it and I think that was really important talking about getting rid of the stigma and stuff like that yeah a lot of positive health things that I didn't expect to come out of that so that's good yeah um what else is going on it's been a busy week uh current events wise there was a few articles that I want to chat about because they're going to have substantial impact if they do occur and I'm talking about section 230 which is a Supreme Court case that's being heard right now that could potentially influence social media as a whole are we going into illegal video we're going to legal eagle video but I'm becoming a legal ego myself to learn about it because I'm so scared basically the Supreme Court will hear a case that could impact how social media platforms can make recommendations of content and all the social media companies currently use algorithms which is essentially a form of recommendation and those recommendations could be stopped because right now if YouTube recommends a video and there's something bad in it that someone wants to sue over they don't Sue YouTube they sue the Creator but this potential section 230 case could make it so that you could sue YouTube for the information that they recommended to and then therefore the algorithms will change as a whole so all social media platforms yeah so it's clear for that if many of you are perhaps watching this on YouTube right now hello and if you are there's probably a series of videos alongside the one you're watching and those are what Mike means when he says videos that are being recommended to you those videos are not there by accident those are actually very intentionally placed there because the algorithm the the sort of machine running behind YouTube and behind the scenes has is predicting you will be interested in clicking and watching hopefully all of if not just one of those videos I think most people know the fyp the for you page that's basically what that is it's a machine learned algorithm but why to you why would the government why would anyone want to get rid of this at all because it seems so beneficial to the viewer it brings them more content that they want Yeah so basically there there was protection within within the first amendment that said these social media companies are not Publishers because we as the creators are the Publishers so we should be liable but in order to um keep them in check various different parts of the government and people on the left and on the right don't want social media companies to be spreading misinformation or putting out information that perhaps favors one side or the other so for various different reasons they're all very angry at the social media platforms for not being liable for the things that they put out and sometimes they don't do anything wrong and there's no need to sue them but sometimes there could be some true misinformation on there that they will now be liable for and as a result those companies in order to protect themselves will just stop recommending and because of that that could be really scary and it could have significantly negative impacts on creators especially new creators because the way that new YouTubers get recognized is the algorithm says hey you've made a new video let me push this out to some people who don't follow you and that's how you discover new people on YouTube yes so the algorithm basically will take a video irrespective of how many Subs someone has and show it to millions of people if it's good and people enjoy it and if it can't do that then those new people will have trouble finding an audience and for those of us who have an audience that have subscribed to us we would be at an advantage or so it seems we're also living in the land of hypotheticals when we talk about this but again very scary a lot of unknowns some good things can come out of this my prediction is that the Supreme Court won't take action and they'll leave it up to Congress to decide and hopefully with some proper education Congress can sort of understand the implications of their actions and not make it so that creators are punished they're doing a good job I feel bad for these legislators and judges like how if you're a 80 year old Congressman you should retire maybe you should have we can talk about age limits in the house representative sure but like how are you supposed to be Savvy enough to understand what the law should be regarding the algorithm of YouTube she was only 15 years old because the goal of someone who represents the people of the US is to be versed on these issues you don't have to be an expert on them but you need to have people on your team who can help you understand them to be at the level of an expert and if you don't have someone on your team like that it's probably your fault because you're not a good leader to get the fun board to explain it to you and it seems like so many people in Congress say the wildest Things in these interviews when they question Mark Zuckerberg or whoever from the platforms because the questions they ask seem all over the place you could probably make the case that the current state of social media on the Internet is either the greatest it will ever be because things like section 230 can come in and wreck it all up or it's the worst it's ever gonna be because they're eventually going to legislate it in a way that creates a healthier ecosystem I think both of those are just as likely and I really don't have a guess for which side it is Spectrum yeah is my answer always of course waiting through the thriving in the sea of nuance I love swimming in this evening ones but I don't know I don't know what the answer is and there's some arguments to be made to removing it that are smart but if you're going to remove that layer of protection then you need to Institute some other layer of protection so that when I search on a public search engine Pizza you you give me a pizza option near me not the one in Antarctica yeah like if you're looking through Google Maps for example and you want to find a pizza restaurant you type in pizza and yeah why would you wouldn't want search results from anywhere that isn't local to you and they're able to give you those local results because they're using your data so obviously there are benefits to them being able to do this but there's also probably examples of it going way too far that we need to rein in yeah so Spectrum new ones um thank you Dr Mike Esquire oh yeah I was like who's Dr Michael I just probably one out there oh no wait there is is there a doctor Mike it wouldn't be Dr Mike yeah there's Mike the lawyer or something yeah didn't we do a collab with them with legal eagle oh law by Mike is that the guy's name yeah good stuff speaking of waiting through the Sea of nuance how about we Wade through the Sea of five star reviews on Apple podcast we need we need more five star reviews and throw in questions in those five star reviews so I can answer them like I'm about to do right now I have a question for you from French fry pie before I get it doesn't sound good before I get to it what is your recommendation on people eating french fry pods I make no recommendation because it's TBD based on their goals and their current health status and all this stuff but in general it just doesn't sound appetizing it doesn't it is it Savory is it sweet I don't know uh french fry pie says great podcast with so many fascinating guests hey Dr Mike I like to go barefoot whenever possible what are the pros and cons with going Barefoot all of the time well Khan's very obvious you get scratches infections tetanus unless you have your tetanus vaccine up to date um but the pros have been sort of Twisted in some of this alternative medical space where they say like it's grounding you it's connecting you to the Earth and if you want to say that in the spiritual sense that's fine but then when people start making claims about the electric load of your body and what it actually means I've seen no evidence to support that so I would say if you enjoy it and you could do it safely by all means do it but just know that you're taking a risk every time you do it also when you do it without Footwear and you go on like a run or something you can strengthen your leg your calf muscle all of that because you're running without support you could also develop a stress fracture so you gotta like weigh the pros and cons for yourself as opposed to on a general level how about those shoes people wear that have the little like fingers for your toes that are sort of like oh barefoot shoes do you have a medical opinion on those at all um I think a lot of them don't have thick soles because they're supposed to be like you're wearing nothing and that we've seen to be problematic for so many people that may have a very high arch or have no Arch and have a flat foot um don't run with proper form and as a result they get more injuries in general cushioning feels good and it's probably good for your knees so I I like the cushioning okay I'm Max cushion on my shoes I went to high school with a Max cushion french fry pie I hope that answers your question yes take us home yeah I I really appreciate you listening and watching if you're on the YouTube channel the checkup with Chris Olsen thanks for watching as always stay happy and healthy

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Published: Mon Mar 27 2023