Hey.
>> My God!
>> [LAUGH] >> My goodness!
>> My God!
>> [LAUGH] >> My God.
>> [LAUGH] >> My God!
>> Yep, that's me.
The end of last year, I decided I needed to change my life.
So I packed my bags, moved out to the Mallocran wilderness.
>> Must be nice, must be nice to pack your bags and
go to a remote place to lose weight.
And that's what Brian O'Keeffe did, he quit his job, moved to a remote island.
And cut off contact with his loved ones for seven months to lose weight.
Okay, let's just pause for a second.
I noticed the accent, I don't know what kinda accent it is.
>> It's Irish.
>> It's Irish, okay.
Yeah, we're giving the Irish way too much time off, okay?
>> [LAUGH] >> It's unacceptable, get back to work.
[LAUGH] What?
Seven months?
>> Seven months.
>> Yeah.
>> Do you guys understand?
I don't know if there's a single working age American who has been unemployed for
seven months because they wanted to be and they were okay with it.
>> Yeah, look, we're gonna tell you-.
>> They die, okay?
They die in America, they would be dead.
>> Yeah. >> On the streets.
>> We're going to tell you how much weight he lost and how he did it.
But funny enough, my reaction to the story was the same exact thing as Anna's.
I was, look, how does he get to take all that time off?
Wait a minute, my God!
In America, we are so crushed, we have no idea how bad it is.
In fact, that will lead to a story about an Iraq barber in Phoenix but first.
>> So, Brian O'Keeffe is his name, as I mentioned earlier.
So, he lost over 100 pounds.
So his plan worked.
Now, the video that we showed you also has a ton of views.
As we filmed this video right now, 32 million to be exact on Tiktok.
Now, here are the details of what he did and his weight loss journey.
So, O'Keeffe spent years trying to lose weight,
including all sorts of diets workout routines.
We've all been there to some extent, nothing really worked.
And he even had a balloon fitted in his stomach to reduce hunger.
So he's even tried pretty invasive tactics to lose weight as well.
But no matter what,
no matter what he tried, he wasn't able to shed the pounds, okay?
He was able to lose, but then he would regain the weight.
The yo-yo diet situation, which a lot of us are also familiar with.
Now, here he is before the weight loss.
After 15 years of failed attempts, O'Keeffe decided to focus on improving
his discipline rather than the exact numbers of how much weight he was losing.
So O'Keeffe reasoned he was struggling because it was so
easy to access indulgent foods.
And his social life centered around food and drink.
So, he removed those aspects of his life by moving to a tiny Mallorcan fishing
village, in the middle of nowhere, which only had one shop open in the winter.
O'Keeffe also cut off all contact with his family and friends, telling them he was
going to work on himself and wouldn't speak to them for three months.
But it turned out that he stayed in this remote location for
far longer than three months, he was there for seven months.
He did quit his job to make this happen, right?
So, maybe he planned ahead, right?
Maybe he had just this robust savings account and he was able to do this.
To which I say, God bless, but I'm still salty about it.
Now, O'keefe says that while his loved ones were supportive of him leaving,
they really had no idea that he was gonna be gone for seven months.
And so they were a little upset about that, but
he was laser focused on his new routine.
O'Keeffe began walking his dog for an hour a day,
before going to a dusty old local gym, as well as swimming, running and stretching.
Soon, he was doing conscious movement for five hours a day.
O'Keeffe challenged himself by working out every day, even when injured that,
which does not sound like a good idea, to build discipline and resilience.
Even though he knew he was over training, he said.
In a month in, again, he quit his job to focus 100% on weight loss,
living off his savings and saving money by cooking meals from scratch.
And so what does he look like now?
Looking like a snack.
So it worked, good for you.
>> It did, and I have to confess, it was a significant transition.
>> It's weird,
turns out working out five hours a day will help you lose weight, wow!
>> Yeah, so look, I've got weight issues.
I've tried different things so
I was looking forward to figuring out what he did, right?
Maybe there's something to learn there.
And the reaction videos you're seeing is when he finally goes back home to Ireland.
This is the first time they've seen him in seven months, he's lost 140 pounds.
So that's why they're like, my God what is this, right?
And the difference is dramatic, right?
But when I read that he's spent five hours a day working out, I was, yeah,
I could get in great shape too if I spent five hours a day working out.
But ain't nobody got five hours a day to work out.
And so in the beginning he didn't even quit his job.
So I don't know what kind of incredible job he had that he could do it on a remote
Spanish island, that looks amazing, right?
>> Maybe he had a month of PTO [LAUGH].
He was collecting that and once it was over he was, I quit [LAUGH], I don't know.
>> And then he had savings, I don't know.
Look,Europeans get so much time off.
Again, for research for my book, just looking into paid family leave.
Do you know in Estonia they have 84 weeks off for family leave, 84 weeks.
We don't have a single day in America.
>> Paid family leave.
Paid family leave, we don't have a single day, okay?
So, no american can do this, let's just keep it real.
>> What are you gonna do when you go back to Ireland though?
Which he has, he's back in Ireland.
>> Yeah. >> He's,
I'm gonna indulge a little more than I am at the moment.
But no, you moved to this remote island and
cut off contact with your family because you couldn't
stop yourself from giving in to the social eating.
All of that still exists at home where you've now returned.
The trick to losing weight and
keeping it off is a lifestyle change in the life that you live in, right?
>> Yeah, I know.
So that's why I'm worried about him, right?
So, the other thing is, look, to be fair to him on the living stuff and
to be fair to all of you Europeans out there.
There's only one store in the whole island.
One day he got a craving for Mcdonald's but didn't wanna drive or
go travel an hour.
That's how long it would have taken to get to a Mcdonald's.
>> Mm-hm.
>> So, he did really make things from scratch, it didn't cost that much money.
There was no fancy restaurants to go to, no cocktails to drink.
But back at home, there will be, right?
And then you've got to be way more disciplined.
And you'll have to get a job and you can't work out for five hours a day.
So I'm worried that he's still gonna see saw a little bit.
You do have to do things that are sustainable and
five hours of workouts is not sustainable, right?
>> I remember reading this study about what happened to the contestants on
that show that we both hated, The Biggest Loser, right?
>> Yeah. >> After The Fact and
all of them ended up gaining the weight back because when you're on the show,
the training, the exercise, the diet is not sustainable.
First of all, it's not healthy, right?
>> Mm-hm. >> Because it's designed to have them shed
weight at a rapid pace, which just that on its own, it's not sustainable and
it's not healthy.
Once they go back to real life and
they don't have the time to do that insane training.
And they don't have the same, I guess, support system that they have on
the show to avoid indulging the way that they did before.
Again, they're just gonna be lured in by the same temptations, right?
So how can you change your daily lifestyle, for
it to be long lasting and sustainable.
>> Yeah, so I made a New Year's resolution about this.
And it's a unique one,
I'm not sure anyone's ever done this New Year's Resolution before,
which was, I wanted to be more wasteful this year, okay?
And the reason for that is part of the reason why we all gain too much weight,
especially in America is because the portions are enormous.
And then you just mindlessly eat what's in front of you, right?
Don't eat the full portion, don't eat it.
Unfortunately, we have a lot of pressure.
Like no starving kids in Africa, India China, Turkey, wherever, right?
No in the old immigrant community, all your strength will be left in there.
You have to eat it, a thousand different pressures, eat it.
Don't, if you can take it as leftovers,
eat it later, you make three meals out of it.
But if you can afford it just, for God's sake, throw away half of it,
throw away a third of it.
I lost 60pounds before.
And the way that I did it was normal amount of exercising, about an hour a day.
And it was called the third diet, I invented it.
Whatever I was gonna eat, I chop off a third and throw it away, okay?
But in order to do that, you have to be a little wasteful and
have everyone in the world yell at you, okay?
>> And when you go out to eat, instead of getting an entrée for yourself and
your friend or companion gets their own entrée, see if they're willing to share.
That's what me and my best friend do anytime we go out to eat together,
we share an entree.
>> Yeah, that's great, I love that.
>> Yeah. >> All right,
look, we're gonna ask you guys about this and
then I'm gonna tell you about the Iraq barber.
We got tyt.com/polls.
What are we asking you guys?
Is it okay to cut off contact with your loved ones in order
to focus on self improvement.
Which is a whole different part of the story.
Seven months where he only talked to his dad and
only because he has Alzheimer's and wouldn't remember.
>> Dude, but also, what are you communicating to your family?
You guys are the problem, you're a bad influence.
>> Mm-hm, that's interesting, yeah.
And I don't know why you can't call your mom.
>> Yeah, no, exactly.
>> No offense to anybody involved.
>> Yeah. >> But you're already on the island,
you're already working out five hours a day.
>> So, what?
I don't get it. >> Call your mother.
>> [LAUGH] >> Yes.
>> Apparently, so now,
back to the weirdo bitter thing that we started at with [LAUGH].
>> I'm just tired and I'm never gonna have.
>> Mm-hm. >> Seven months in my working years where
I don't have to come into work, never, never once, ever.
I've been working nonstop since I graduated college.
>> Can I tell you my- >> It's never gonna end, never.
>> My 12 year old just asked me yesterday, we were in the car to go.
We're going to super bowl and he's Bob, I don't get it.
So there's the summer vacations, okay.
And there's winter break, it's a couple of weeks.
And then then you start working and it seems like-.
>> There's no brakes.
So he's- >> All gas, no brakes, okay?
So hold on.
>> Yeah. >> He literally asked,
this is a 12 year old, when do we ever get a break?
>> Never, you're never gonna get a break pro.
>> And he's, do we have to just work from here?
>> Yep.
>> Till we're 65 or 70?
>> Yeah, when you're about ready to die, literally.
I'm not even exaggerating, okay?
And if Republicans have their way, probably till the day you die.
>> Okay, now get a load of this.
So I'm in Phoenix over the weekend, I go to a barber,
that particular guy randomly turns out to be Iraq, okay?
And he came roughly about 20 years ago and
I asked the question I always ask, I'm an immigrant.
So they are more at ease.
I tell him that and we're both muslim, etc.
Right, at least background wise.
And in fact his name is my cousin's name.
And he said, how do you like it here?
And he was, don't like it.
>> Mm-hm.
>> I can't wait to go back to Iraq.
>> What?
>> I was, really?
And that's the thing, I have not heard much, right?
And I said that's super interesting, why?
He's, Iraq is so much easier.
He's, I wanna work and I want opportunity.
>> Wait, this is in California?
>> No, this is in Phoenix.
>> In Phoenix. >> Okay.
>> Okay, cuz I was gonna say if he's in California,
he's in the wrong place but continue.
>> Yeah.
>> No one gets punished more in California, the middle class workers but
continue.
>> Yeah, but it's across the country, it applies to everybody.
And he lived in different places in America too.
He's, the problem with America is it's a never ending treadmill and
you can't get off of it.
>> A 1000%.
>> You barely make enough to survive.
And I send a little home and I gotta send a little home, right?
And then I have nothing left.
And so everybody in Iraq says my God,
America is such a great land of opportunity and stuff.
He's, is it?
Because I'm working my ass off, I'm trying to look for opportunity, I've done this,
I've done that etc.
But we never almost never get time off, he's, I love fishing.
But I don't have enough time to go fishing.
And I can't save any money because we're constantly running.
And then he explained to me have how there's jobs in Iraq where you make
not as much money, of course, as you do in America.
But he's, but the standard of living is so much lower that he's,
even if I was just a barber, I'd make, he said, $1600 a month, right?
But in Iraq you live like a king if you make $1600 a month and
life is much easier.
You got family to support you and not everyone is constantly running, right?
And he's right.
Corporations here have set up a maze we can't get out of, right?
And we're all just going around and around and around in the maze.
There's something really wrong with what's happened in America and
almost no one's talking about it.