TRACK TRENDS

“2021's inflation surge moderated in 2023, while the Federal Reserve continued to raise its interest rates in the first half of the year. On February 1, the Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25% from 4.5% to 4.75% as part of the ongoing effort to manage the economy.”

“We see from a randomized controlled trial that came out last month that those people who lift on the heavy end, both men and women, lift on the heavy end get more prefrontal cortex neuro conductivity. So that means they're actually empowering the neurons in the prefrontal cortex more so than those people that are lifting moderate weight or body weight. Only the heavy end of lifting really does affect the prefrontal cortex.”

“Mass shootings in 2023 have also continued in high numbers, with 528 occurring as of October 2 according to Gun Violence Archive. Events included a mass shooting inside a house in Enoch, Utah, where eight members of a single family were killed, and another at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California, where eleven people were killed following a Lunar New Year celebration.”

“The first one was John Cronin, the Republican incumbent in Texas, went to the Houston Chronicle and criticized Trump's response to the virus. That immediately tells you he's getting slaughtered on the west side of Houston and woodlands and these kinds of places. In Arizona, Martha McSally refused to kind of say nice things about Trump.”

“The rise of artificial intelligence and large language models dominated not only the economy but has also been at the root of a Hollywood double strike conducted by Writers Guild of America and a SAG APTRA strike. These were part of a larger phenomenon of labor strikes across the country, in which such large diverse groups, such as Teamsters and Auto Workers won new contracts.”

“A sharp spike in gasoline prices during the war triggered a surge of inflation last month. Consumer prices in March were up 3.3% from a year ago. That's the biggest annual increase in twenty two months. Stripping out volatile energy and food prices, core inflation was 2.6%, high enough to make the Federal Reserve cautious about additional cuts to interest rates.”

“But it also strikes me, you know, in all that I've covered, that when it's really close at the end, the vast majority of times it breaks against the incumbent. That's a pretty general but accurate rule to make about American politics.”

“Cold plunge. Oh, yeah. I caused an international shit storm with this one. The ice water, the ice bath that comes along is way too cold for women. It causes more of a sympathetic drive. And once we get over that sympathetic drive, then the responses for parasympathetic still are not as robust as we see for men. So we're looking at 55 degrees Fahrenheit, around 14 to 16 degrees Celsius. It is in the research.”

“Luther Vandross and Phil Collins have been eligible for the Rock Hall for twenty years and Sade for almost as long. They're all in the class of 2026 along with British post punk legends Joy Division and their spin off group New Order. Two more British acts, Iron Maiden and Billy Idol, made the cut this year after being active since the nineteen seventies.”

“The four Artemis two astronauts are now heading in get to medical evaluations, this after a ten day journey to the far side of the moon. The spacecraft had a near perfect return to Earth Friday evening, landing in the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of San Diego, and then the astronauts were imported into a ship.”

“2023 also saw the roots of a global banking crisis arise out of four American regional banks, the two largest being Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank. These developments occurred alongside a moderation of the 2021 inflation surge, while the Federal Reserve continued to raise its interest rates in the first half of the year.”

“The Americans are led by vice president, JD Vance, and the Iranians by the parliament speaker, Mohammad Baher Ghalibaf. The negotiations are based on a 10 Iranian plan that includes an end to attacks and sanctions on the country. Analysts warn negotiations will take time, and it's unlikely one meeting will resolve this conflict.”

“Because Japan hit the, like, silver tsunami a little earlier, they have this interesting thing where they're giving away free houses or super cheap houses, sometimes free. They're called Akiya's... there's over 8,000,000 IKEAs that are being given away by the government, or, again, sometimes for very cheap.”

“I really think that if somebody created some kind of, thing for, you know, out of shape, middle aged guys to do. They'll do it. And I think if you make it if you brand it almost like as the, the non fit person triathlon, and it's gotta have, like, some version of eating and drinking being one of the legs, dude, that's the next tough mudder.”

“When I was back in the day when Interbike was in Las Vegas, I was sharing a cab back to the airport, and this guy got in and he didn't look healthy at all. And he was talking about how he's gonna go on a bike ride, but he had to use his beta alanine and beet juice first. And I was like, what are you talking about? He goes, oh, yeah. Well, that's how I can go hard on my bike. I was like, have you tried training without it? He goes, why would I do that?”

“The dominant political story of the year has been the 270-day-long speakership of Representative Kevin McCarthy, whose slim majority in the House of Representatives has enabled a far-right rebellion to exert more weight over the lower chamber. The battle between the rebellious Freedom Caucus and McCarthy has been at the heart of an averted debt ceiling crisis and the annual budget debate nearly devolving into a government shutdown.”

“Baseball's new automatic ball strike system could be making games a little longer so far this season with the time of a nine inning game creeping upward to two hours and forty two minutes through this weekend. That's up four minutes from last season, and that's all after the league successfully brought down the length of length of games in 2023 by introducing a pitch timer and other rules.”

“If you look at, if you produce this result, if you took the CNN poll, NBC Wall Street Journal poll, and they're both telephone polls... Trump said, he said 40. Now that's a ridiculously low number. If we think the third party vote is 2, then that produces a result of, you ready? 58, 40. Way bigger than Reagan, I think.”

“I'm kind of in shock. I wanted to feed Mundy and Tara close together. And so I fed Tara over here. She picked up her food and brought it right over to the fence line here so she could be eating with Mundy. So you tell me what that means. I think that is really good.”

“I feel very optimistic that we'll be well over, you know, I think we'll be closer to 55, to 50 I really do. Because I just can't see how, given the current environment and the current national mood, and, you know, you just keep hearing Republican posters telling people we're doomed.”

“2023 also saw the roots of a global banking crisis arise out of four American regional banks, the two largest being Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank. 2021's inflation surge moderated in 2023, while the Federal Reserve continued to raise its interest rates in the first half of the year.”

“The Southern California Music Festival, which has been running for more than twenty five years, is one of the hottest tickets of the festival season. And the Colombian star, Carol G, will make history on Sunday night as the first Latina to ever headline the festival.”

“57 of 77 forest service labs nationwide are on a list to shutter. Scientists at these labs study everything from pollinators to wildfires. The agency said this week the closures don't mean an end to research. It's just relocating small teams to other spaces.”

“We also see that about four years before that one point in time in menopause, there's an incredible decrease in our gut microbiome diversity, which then exacerbates the body's ability to store body fat because we start having an overgrowth of the phyla that is obesogenic or prefers to grab all of the energy out of all the food they're eating and make you crave simple carbohydrates.”

“When we look at wearables, the algorithms are based on male data. There are a lot of women who are like, what's going on? My Garmin's yelling at me. You're in the red. What's going on? You're sick. But, actually, they just ovulated. And these algorithms are not picking up the fact that when we look at physiology for women, there's an inherent change across the menstrual cycle with regards to autonomic nervous system.”

“There are a 153 studies in the systematic review. Of it, the conclusion was women 18 to 60 should be using three to five grams of creatine supplementation to optimize and improve overall health. Anything about the brain, the heart, the gut, the bone, everything requires creatine. For women, by the nature of being women, we have less lean mass than men, so we have less stores.”

“So tonight, as a friend of mine pointed out, the infection rate on just the White House campus at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is currently 23 times the entire country of New Zealand. Think about that. Just that block. I could not imagine a more miserable place to work now.”

“If you're going to create a stress without food, you're not going to create a really strong stress. You feel like you are. But from the body, from a cellular level, it's not as strong of a stress to create the adaptation that you want. You're gonna have more catecholamine, so that's your cortisol and your breakdown hormones that are being produced so that it can fuel your workout. Let's just take that negative stress away by putting a little bit of food in before you go training.”

“Israel says that it will have full control of the Lebanese town of Bin Shabeel, quote, within days. The town has become the center of intense fighting. It's part of land that Israel says it's seizing from Lebanon to create what it calls a buffer zone so Hezbollah can't fire rockets into Israel. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli defense minister Israel Katz both joined invading troops inside Lebanon over the weekend.”

“The rise of artificial intelligence and large language models dominated not only the economy but has also been at the root of a Hollywood double strike conducted by Writers Guild of America and a SAG APTRA strike. These were part of a larger phenomenon of labor strikes across the country, in which such large diverse groups, such as Teamsters and Auto Workers won new contracts.”

“Additionally, the latter half of the year saw many large mergers and acquisitions, some of the largest announcements being in oil and gas with ExxonMobil's purchase of Pioneer Natural Resources for nearly $60 billion and Chevron's acquisition of Hess Corporation for $50 billion, both in October and pending regulatory approval prior to closure.”

“The rise of artificial intelligence and large language models dominated not only the economy but has also been at the root of a Hollywood double strike conducted by Writers Guild of America and a SAG APTRA strike. These were part of a larger phenomenon of labor strikes across the country, in which such large diverse groups, such as Teamsters and Auto Workers won new contracts.”

“Four out of every five are run as for profits, and half of all the operators in the industry are clearing annual returns of 20% or more than it costs to operate. With 850,000 older Americans living within assisted living, the rents are getting jacked up.”

“What about the billions of people around the globe that are, you know, 65 plus that are just gonna need physical human support? So nursing's one area. Also, the the rest of that stat talks about in Japan, the number of nursing homes has risen nearly 50% over the last decade.”

“The US housing market remains in a slump. According to the National Association of Realtors, sales of existing homes fell 3.6% last month. For homes that did sell in March, the average sales price was just under $409,000. Freddie Mac says mortgage rates, which briefly dipped below 6% this spring, are now averaging 6.37%.”

“Gonzalez's resignation announcement came hours after California Democratic representative Eric Swalwell also announced his own plan to resign. Swalwell is facing allegations of sexual assault and misconduct from at least four women. Gonzales had already dropped his bid for reelection after being forced into a primary runoff and the launch of a congressional ethics investigation into his behavior.”

“I think, a lot of people don't really understand, like, the biological and physiological factors that make us x x versus x y. We know that most of the research in health and sports science has been done on men and generalized women, even small things like aspirin for heart attack. There were no women who were in the original study. So they're looking at men and generalizing to women.”

“I want you guys to guess what the fastest growing sports are... number two, I would have never guessed. Alpine touring. I don't even know what that really is. I think it's just, like, off off country skiing. And then I have never heard of what is winter fat biking?”

“If we want to improve bone density, we need a multidirectional stress coming up. When I talk about jump training, so many people, especially perimenopausal women, like, I can't my joints hurt. It's like, I'm not talking about plyometric high box jumps. It could be something as simple as a toe raise and a hard heel slam because you're dropping hard and absorbing all those forces. That's a multidirectional force to the skeletal system.”

“I'm kind of in shock. I wanted to feed Mundy and Tara close together. And so I fed Tara over here. She picked up her food and brought it right over to the fence line here so she could be eating with Mundy. So you tell me what that means. I think that is really good.”

“2021's inflation surge moderated in 2023, while the Federal Reserve continued to raise its interest rates in the first half of the year. The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25% from 4.5% to 4.75% during its February meeting. This followed a period of intense focus on fiscal policy and banking stability after the failure of several regional banks.”

“If anyone's ever been to an f forty five or an Orangetheory, I know they already have targets on me, so I'm happy to just talk about them now. You're sitting forty five minutes at an intensity that isn't high intensity. It feels that way because we've all been conditioned to come out of a workout feeling really sweaty and wasted, but that's not effective. So it's not hard enough to be hard to invoke change. It's not easy enough to be easy for recovery.”

“The dominant political story of the year has been the 270-day-long speakership of Representative Kevin McCarthy, whose slim majority in the House of Representatives has enabled a far-right rebellion to exert more weight over the lower chamber. The battle between the rebellious Freedom Caucus and McCarthy has been at the heart of an averted debt ceiling crisis and the annual budget debate nearly devolving into a government shutdown, all culminating in the removal of McCarthy on October 3rd.”

“I'm kind of in shock. I wanted to feed Mundy and Tara close together. And so I fed Tara over here. She picked up her food and brought it right over to the fence line here so she could be eating with Mundy. So you tell me what that means. I think that is really good.”

“The dominant political story of the year has been the 270-day-long speakership of Representative Kevin McCarthy, whose slim majority in the House of Representatives has enabled a far-right rebellion to exert more weight over the lower chamber. The battle between the rebellious Freedom Caucus and McCarthy has been at the heart of an averted debt ceiling crisis and the annual budget debate nearly devolving into a government shutdown.”