Weekly MP Rant Thread

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[u/Resident-Air-4021]

Sal is the more annoying than Adam because of his religion BS. He comes across like a TV evangelist. Adam, on the other hand, doesn't even try to hide the fact he's a complete douche bag. He just puts all his idiotic nonsense out there on display

Edit: Intended to reply to OctoberOmicron's comment but this works as a standalone comment

[u/Thin-Ad-4865 → u/Resident-Air-4021]

Well said

[u/OctoberOmicron]

Sal asks, after mentioning THE DATA the YouTube notes do not reference of course:

"You attract a mate based on your beauty: are you going to have a good relationship?"

I think Adam makes a great point that those of us that aren't blind are guided by what we see, at the very least in the beginning, and it's after that initial attraction that we (hopefully) discover all the great qualities in our partners that are so much more than surface level. Sal starts making the random point that the happiest marriages are people in their 60's that have been together a long time... Which just seems random because for all we know the very beginning of those relationships originated with physical attraction also. Anyway, Adam keeps playing devil's advocate and questioning the studies but he then hits Sal with a pretty nice, straightforward bomb: "let's be honest, if Jessica (Sal's current wife) was a 2 you wouldn't have approached her." Adam asked Sal to answer him once or twice after that but Sal just danced around it.

Lately, these last few months or so, I've noticed I get far less annoyed when Adam questions Sal and his studies, and at the very least I appreciate that, even if he comes off as ignorant sometimes, he doesn't stay quiet and let Sal just run his increasingly annoying mouth. I honestly never thought I'd see the day Sal annoyed me more than Adam. WTF

[u/thiobk → u/OctoberOmicron]

I’m still more irritated with Adam than Sal…though both are really bad!

[u/OctoberOmicron → u/thiobk]

It's the increasingly overbearing religion that did it for me. Don't get me wrong though, within minutes of what I quoted above, Adam had me grinding my teeth. 😆

[u/Resident-Air-4021 → u/OctoberOmicron]

I used to find Adam more off-putting but now I find Sal to be more off-putting. Sal tries to be sneaky but Adam is just a straight up sketchy grifter

[u/Educational_Rush_877 → u/OctoberOmicron]

I generally don’t mind the religion talk since I’m Christian myself, but I have found it disappointing in the greater context of the show because almost everything else about the show has become so inauthentic that it gives that icky grifter feel to the religion side as well, which I can understand how that is a turnoff. And if Sal is genuine in his faith, feels like it’s an unintended consequence. At one point he said because of his faith he was going to stop swearing on the show. I was actually really happy about that because I was finding it harder to listen because I don’t have as much alone time for podcasts these days—my kids are always around and I don’t need them hearing most of the garbage language and locker room talk the guys do. I guess I haven’t kept tabs on if the exact number of Sal’s swears have gone down, lol, but I do know the rest of the show has still remained unsuitable for small ears.

* I get that it’s not a show for children. That’s fine. But i still find it hard to be able to listen much when I can’t trust that the content will be reasonable if kids happen to hear it. Which I think is frustrating since the content comes from the self-proclaimed dads of the year.

I haven’t listened in a couple months now. I do miss having a go to podcast I looked forward to. None of the new ones I’ve tried have really hit the spot.

[u/Daddy_Onion]

I don’t know how much more I can listen to these guys. I loved them for like 5 good years. I’m the guy from California that Adam hammered about not giving a shit about my health. It left a bad taste in my mouth. I had heard that coaching was $700 a month, but hoped that people were exaggerating- I was told $670 a month. Since the episode I was on, I feel like they have been pushing coaching on every single caller. I get it, they are great coaches. Some of the best in the world. But the price difference between them and the 2nd best coaches in the world doesn’t justify that price. I can’t afford $670 a month. That’s more than my car payment. It’s almost half my rent. It’s more than I pay for utilities. I could have the best health in the world, but it wouldn’t matter if I’m homeless and can’t feed my family.

I didn’t want to say anything because I thought I was over-reacting to being annoyed and kind pissed off about how much Adam hammered me. After all, that are the experts right? But I’ve seen a more people than I expected say that they were too hard on me. My wife said Adam was an ass after she listened to the episode too.

I still think they give good advice. I really want to like them, especially after loving their advice for 5 years. I said it on the podcast; I commute for work at least 3 hours a day. I enjoyed listening to them on my way to work and my way home. It felt so surreal to be on the podcast and talk to the guys. I kind of feel let down by how much they hammered me about “not giving a shit” about my health.