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It is completely gone now with BPC157 I'm feeling stronger. Going to the gym, working out and rest and recovery has been super important. A lot of my rest and recovery protocol has to do with getting a good night's sleep and sticking to a very specific routine. So when I wake up I do eggs, I do carnival and I'm gonna start doing a carnival. Is a actually got a bag here. Carnival is a freeze dried. Why do you have a bag of meat by your foot? I'm sponsored by Carnival meaning they sponsor this podcast. So big shout out to Carnival. But it's top sirloin, beef, chicken and pork that is freeze dried. Now this is 25 year shelf life food. This would be stuff that you would sit on a shelf and Just fire and forget. But it's also constituted reconstituted in five minutes with your favorite whatever. I use bone broth from bare bones. Delicious bone broth. Oh my gosh, I love bone broth. That adds an additional 20 grams. I use two packets, so that's 20 grams of protein to already 25 grams of protein in an individual serving pack, which they do sell. And I add that to my eggs. There are studies, a lot of studies that show the importance of getting that protein early in the morning and also eating breakfast. Eating breakfast is a very important part of your day. It curbs your appetite at night so you don't have those cravings at night where you're just walking into the fridge in the middle of the night, which I often do if I don't eat breakfast. And also maintaining muscle mass. I'm 230 pounds. I mean, I'm actually 225 pounds. I'm actually feeling pretty lean. You could see a little bit of muscle definition for the first time on my. My big body. I'm 225 pounds right now because I'm fasting. You guys could follow along with fasting journeys. I do a fast with my patrons on Patreon every quarter. But I need the protein. There's a recommendation of 1.5 grams per pound of body weight, which is a lot of protein. I do 1 gram per pound of body weight, which is 230 grams of protein. So getting that in the morning, super important, right? Also, that direct sunlight in your eye. I have a window which is providing the light during this podcast because I'm broke and don't have a lot of lighting for the studio. But that natural light is so important because it sets your circadian rhythm. Your pattern of sleep behavior is set first thing in the morning when that blue light from the sun, that UV spectrum of light goes into your eye. I was somebody who always wears sunglasses, which is why my Asian facial features at the age of 46 still looks decent. I haven't been demolished by the sun. But getting that blue light in the eye is a first part of my day outside of eating breakfast. In addition to that, I started kettlebell routines. Mountain fitness or Mountain Tough? Is it Mountain Tough? I don't look. I. All these companies I'm mentioning, I don't work with. I just use their stuff and I appreciate their stuff. I'll link them all down below. If I do have an incentive for you for that company, I'll link it down as well. Mountain Tough is an app. These guys are Based in Montana, where you could do workouts on the go. Their kettlebell routine is an awesome routine, something that you could take into a hotel room, into an Airbnb, and there's no excuse. I'm also getting 10,000 steps a day. That's uber important as well, because I want mobility, I want movement. Look, I'm not. I'm not trying to get jacked at my age. What I am trying to do is stay fit, stay flexible and mobile and still have cardiovascular fitness just in case I need to take my kids to the zoo. Not off the X. That's a benefit, right? That's the. That's the contingency benefit of working out and being healthy. If something goes wrong, yeah, you could survive, but just an active lifestyle. Taking my kids to zoo, picking them up, putting them on my back. If I'm not able to do that, I'm not able to be the most present and capable father that I can be. And that's up to me. That's up to me. What other routines am I adding? Oh, protein. In addition to carnival, I do meat and beef liver snacks. These are the only two snacks that I need. Why? Because they fulfill my cravings. One, there's this bar called Prime. I wish I had a picture of it. It's called Primal Bar, Primal Power bar, Primal Fuel bar, something like that, where they integrate beef liver into dates, which are the most delicious thing on the planet. You get 10 grams of protein in a bar, you get your intake of B12, and it's amazing. It tastes amazing, by the way. I do two of them a day. One, two. One in the morning, one in the afternoon. And I've. I very much look forward to that meal or that snack in between meals. And I do Wasachway Goofy Wagyu beef sticks. Why? Because I know the guy. It's a local business. I support his local business, and they're delicious. So I have two very clean snacks that I do every day, simplifying my life, my night, my life is not that complicated. And at the end of the day, I talk to you about my sauna routine. I'm doing the sauna thing. The most profound thing that I've ever done in all of this stuff is, is reducing the amount of time, the amount of screen time I have on social media. I'm. I'm really never on Instagram. If I do a post and you see, you guys see me on Mike A. Glover or Mike Glover actual, I'm just posting and I'm deleting my account and it's not on my phone. Why? Because I'll scroll it. I do have Facebook Marketplace, which is a secret habit of mine, which. Whoa. I spent a lot of time on Marketplace, but. But I've even been reducing that amount of time, 20 minutes max per day I spend on my phone. Why? Because I feel better. You're getting dopamine. You're getting all these feelings of highs when you're on social media, in comment threads, worried about the next drama. And I don't want that drama living rent free in my head. Last but not least. I know I said last but last but not least. And and I I must say this with the time that I have during fast because I'm not eating three meals a day. I'm not preparing and eating and cleaning up. I've dedicated a lot of my time in my day in scripture in prayer. I do a show now called Preaching the Choir, which is another channel of mine where I do Sunday episodes starting next week, maybe this week, I'll be doing not preaching to the choir, but practicing. What you preach is a segment of my channel where we do Bible study, digging into scripture, and it's my selfish way of holding myself accountable, but by benefit. I hope you get something out of it as well. If you have some extra time, use that time wisely. Choose wisely. As the master used to say, choose wise. Re and when you reallocate that time, reallocate it into something that's going to give back into your life. Be present with your children, your family, your friends, actually have conversations with them, read scripture, listen to podcasts that talk about positive things that educate you. I hope that's one of the reasons you listen to my podcast, because I hope it provides you that kind of value. All right, guys, it's time to transition. Let's get into it. Let's get into this situation in Iran. Before I get into Iran, I do want to mention this issue with Joe Kent that you guys have saw me comment about. I on my patreon had a post where I said, look, two things could be true at once. Joe Kent could be a patriot and he could also not like the administration's policies. But so many people are beholden to their religion that happens to be a political party, a political person, a political movement. I don't subscribe to any politicians, movements or policies because one, I don't trust them. But I would default my trust to somebody with committed, consistent experience. Joe Kent, when he was a Green Beret or working for the CIA or when he was in Africa when His wife was killed in Syria. Serving our country wasn't doing it for the gram. He was doing it because he loves his country. Not loved loves his country. And it's interesting to see the division amongst the population between supporting Joe Kent and this ideology of wars potentially are bad. I know that from experience because I fought in war my entire teens, my late teens and all my 20s and most of my 30s was committed to a life in service and my profession, my specific duty and responsibility brought me to war, took me to war and took a lot of my life, a lot of my time and a lot of my teammates. Now I have no regrets because I served and committed voluntarily to the service of the nation. But the nation's priorities were skewed because of the crooked politicians that were in positions of power able to manipulate people and direct are armed forces overseas. I did five, did I do six or. I've been to Iraq a lot years of my life committed of the four years of comment that I have in service in combat in Iraq where we we never should have been. We never should have been in Iraq. There was no wmd. There was no reason or justification that we articulated so well using Colin Powell. I remember it because I was in the Q course at the time going through training. We lost lot lot of Americans, 3,000 plus Americans there. And veterans like myself and Joe Kent ask why Was it for the right reasons? We like this, we like to use this term imminent threat. You know Joe Kent knows that word better than anybody I know he was a tier one operator in orange. He was a Green Beret and he served as a ground branch paramilitary operations officer in the CIA. Who knows that world understanding terrorism and imminence of threat more than Joe Kent. Nobody for sure. Not a politician. And I felt slighted when I heard the President of the United States criticizing Joe Kent, calling him a nice guy but a guy who's weak on security. What so the day before he resigned he was a patriot, a war fighter. Someone who had served and sacrificed everything for his country including the life of his wife killed by a suicide bomber in Syria. I hear Dan Bongino running his suck on social media. A man who literally said there's nothing in the Epstein files which we all publicly now know is completely false. And there's more to the story. He himself resigns and he's. I don't even want to get vulgar here because I'll keep it clean for this episode but he wants to chalk it up as it's some conspiracy how he's some disgruntled employee. No, he's a warrior, a patriot, and he's telling the truth. I still haven't heard what the imminent danger was that justified us losing nearly a dozen Americans and being committed to war, a full scale war. Now, that war, according to the Trump administration, is under scrutiny and has a high likelihood of ending very soon. But we've heard that for the last several weeks. This is nearly going on for a month. Gas prices are up 30% in the last two days. They've gone up a dollar in my own hometown per gallon. Why is that happening? Well, the Strait of Hormuz is shut off because the Iranians are launching drones and striking ships that are coming through the corridor. So it's down to zero moving through the strait. You look at 20% of natural gas, oil, commodities moving through the Strait of Hormuz that are not just supplying us, but supplying to who are partners, our trade partners. There's delays logistically across the board for most companies here in America. The stock market obviously is being affected by this. Oil and gas prices are going up. And we just deployed this is open source information, the 82nd Airborne Division to the region. At the same time, we're saying that diplomatic efforts with this 15 part plan are looking good. Now, members of the Iranian regime, mostly the rgc, because that's who's in charge, are saying they're not talking to the administration, and these are lies. But the administration has claimed they're talking to a group who has just gifted them a prize, a significant prize, according to Trump, and that's happening in real time. So the case in point for all this is one, committing ourselves to war and conflict because of the motivations of a foreign country are not in the best interest of our country. That is the platform, that is the speaking bits and pieces that were communicated across the campaign, across all the key players, that we are not going to recklessly get into war. And in my opinion, we just did. Now, again, I'll state the claim that again, multiple things to be true at once, the irgc, the Iranian regime, the Ayatollah, needed to be taken out. But can you take out surgically these elements, clandestinely, these elements, without committing us to war or troops on the ground? The answer is yes.
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If this works out the way that we want, the war will be over soon and the Iranians will know their place. Will terrorism stop? Absolutely not. Why? You just killed the Ayatollah. So in the course of action development of this, as you're lining out what the second and third order effects are, it is just obvious to me that one of the effects would be because you're fighting an ideology that is deeply seated in the hearts and minds of men via their religious imons and leaders and the Prophet Muhammad that they are, no matter what the timeline we state on our calendar, not going to abide by that and continue the insurgency, continue their jihad. That's how it works guys. When, when, when we stopped fighting the campaign in Afghanistan, we thought the war was done. The war for them had just been put on pause for them to prepare some more. It never stops for them. We seem to forget that the Quran explicitly states that the infidel shall be killed and that's what's going on. They're exclusively supporting Hezbollah, the Houthis and other terrorist organizations in the region. Do you think any of those action arms are going to stop fighting because the Iranian regime declares an end to fighting? No. They're reinvigorated. You killed their religious leader. Now they have more incentive to continue the fight. And the bombs you drop, just like McChrystal outlined in the past, it's a math problem. You kill one, they produce three. And it's upside down math. That's why it's good to have adversarial positions on policy and opinion. So the claim that Joe Kent is a traitor is comical at best. The claim that Joe Kent is working against the administration is comical at best. He's literally stating for a fact on Tucker Carlson show what happened, why he feels the way he feels. And you could see all the talking conservative heads that are bought that are literally getting paid by the Israelis. And look, I like Israel, I like Israelis. I think they have a right to freedom in the region. I think they had a right to retaliate and respond to October 7th. But I myself am an American byproduct of the Korean war fought from 1950-53 with a lot of blood shedded by Americans. My mom, who's Korean, taught me that I'm an American first. My children, my children's children. And my country is more important than any others country. And, and I don't want to see us pulled into another war that last endlessly with now an Ask for $200 billion of additional funding when we're $39 trillion in debt. That doesn't sit right with me and I don't think it sits right with a lot of Americans. And listen, you could have your opinion. You could be upset at Joe Kent, you could be upset at the administration. But. But at the end of the day, we're Americans and the best interests for our country are the best interests for our country. No other country. And that's what I'm asking myself. I'm asking myself why is Bongino jumping on Joe Kent after he just showed his butt with the Epstein files, Looking all paranoid, his eyes wide open. Doesn't make sense unless he is bought by the Israelis. I'm hoping that this has a resolution and we get out of this. But here's my prediction and I'll make it right now you're going to see boots on the ground from the a second Airborne division, which I think the five day was a delay in tactics. I think that's what that was. You're going to see boots on the ground in the Strait of Hormuz for them to reopen it because economically it's going to destroy us. And they're going to justify it by saying that we're only boots on the ground for the straight of Hormuz. And then when the Iranians retaliate and Americans are killed, it's going to quickly evolve. That's my take guys. Preaching the Choir's episode is up from last Sunday. I'll link it down below. I hope you guys are having a good day. Till next time. Peace out.
Host: Mike Glover
Date: March 25, 2026
In this episode, Mike Glover blends a candid discussion on personal health, wellness routines, and self-reliance with a sober analysis of the unfolding war with Iran. Drawing from his own experiences as a veteran and father, Mike tackles American involvement in foreign conflicts, the political controversy around Joe Kent, and the broader consequences of the current Middle East crisis for U.S. citizens. The episode is marked by Mike's signature straightforward tone and offers a mix of practical life advice, political critique, and predictions about the near future.
[00:30 – 05:00]
Wellness Goals for 2026
"Your health and wellness cannot be outsourced. You have to insource it and be self-reliant."
(Mike Glover, 02:15)
Psychedelic Therapies
"The only problem is because Big Pharma has total and utter control. We're the most unhealthiest first world country in the world."
(01:45)
Sauna and Cold Plunge Protocols
Peptide Supplementation
"It is completely gone now with BPC157 ... I'm feeling stronger."
(Mike Glover, 05:02)
Rest, Recovery, and Diet
Emphasizes the importance of sleep, structured routines, protein intake, and fasting.
Advocates eating breakfast ("super important"), and guides listeners on protein:
"There are studies, a lot of studies that show the importance of getting that protein early in the morning."
(06:05)
Shares practical foods—freeze-dried Carnival meats, bone broth, and beef liver snacks, focusing on shelf life and simplicity.
Movement & Fitness
"If I'm not able to do that, I'm not able to be the most present and capable father that I can be. And that's up to me."
(09:40)
Reducing Screen Time
"I don't want that drama living rent free in my head."
(11:45)
Spiritual Growth
"With the time that I have during fast ... I've dedicated a lot of my time in my day in scripture and prayer."
(12:55)
[14:00 – 22:00]
Joe Kent Controversy
"Two things could be true at once. Joe Kent could be a patriot and he could also not like the administration's policies."
(14:25)
"I don't subscribe to any politicians, movements or policies because one, I don't trust them."
(14:40)
Experience in War
"We never should have been in Iraq. There was no WMD. There was no reason or justification."
(16:15)
Skepticism Toward Administrations
Criticizes politicians for manipulating military action and reminds listeners of the high costs—both human and economic—of war:
"The nation's priorities were skewed because of the crooked politicians that were in positions of power."
(16:50)
Cites the economic consequences of the ongoing Iran war, mentioning gas price hikes and disruptions to critical supply routes like the Strait of Hormuz:
"Gas prices are up 30% in the last two days. They've gone up a dollar in my own hometown per gallon."
(18:15)
Discusses the deployment of the 82nd Airborne Division, noting the mixed diplomatic signals and lack of transparency from both U.S. and Iranian officials.
On American Priorities
Stresses prioritizing America's interests above foreign alliances and wars, not wanting endless conflict or extra $200 billion in defense spending:
"My country is more important than any others country. And, and I don't want to see us pulled into another war that [will] last endlessly..."
(23:05)
Predicts boots on the ground to secure the Strait of Hormuz and warns of potential escalation:
"You're going to see boots on the ground ... and then when the Iranians retaliate and Americans are killed, it's going to quickly evolve."
(24:21)
[22:06 – 26:00]
Warns that killing religious leaders like the Ayatollah won't stop terrorism, but may inflame it:
"You kill one, they produce three. And it's upside down math."
(23:08)
Balances criticism of Iranian regime terror sponsorship (Hezbollah, Houthis) with a repeat warning about endless insurgency and American overreach.
Calls out pro-war narratives and paid media personalities:
"You could see all the talking conservative heads that are bought—that are literally getting paid by the Israelis."
(23:50)
Mike Glover’s voice remains personal, practical, and candid throughout—calling out both personal shortcomings and political hypocrisy, offering grounded advice, and repeatedly advocating self-sufficiency and critical thinking. The episode balances approachable wellness tips with sobering geopolitical analysis, delivered in the no-nonsense, relatable style that characterizes Mike's podcast presence.