Joshua Rainer: The Butthole Never Lies
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: Joshua Rainer, ice cream, and fitness
1:28 – Becoming a fitness influencer in college
2:41 – Selling Caveman Coffee and the caveman persona
3:47 – Gym Ratts, his ESPN show, and Covid
5:59 – Specialized training for different sports
8:13 – From meathead lifting to CrossFit and strongman
12:36 – Arguing about school lunches and calories
14:05 – Why everyone has strong opinions about food
15:49 – Seed oils and simplifying your diet
17:59 – The butthole never lies
19:13 – Why restaurant food doesn't taste good anymore
21:50 – Carnivore, an 8,000-calorie binge, and adding carbs back
25:27 – Genetics, North Korea, and lactose intolerance in China
27:26 – Raw milk, digestion, and food freedom
34:48 – Leaving LA during Covid to work on a farm
38:13 – Learning to farm and working as a ranch butcher
41:59 – Hidden ingredients and citric acid on meat
44:11 – Oat milk, seed oils, and McDonald's beef tallow
46:41 – Vegetable rennet in cheese and being less strict
49:55 – John Danaher, elite athletes, and junk food
53:11 – DK Metcalf and a fruit-then-meat diet
56:01 – Paul Saladino, Ray Peat, and splitting carbs and fat
1:02:37 – Eating for what you'll do next
1:04:27 – The Kempner rice diet and Denise Minger
1:07:11 – Orange juice, Coca-Cola, gummy bears, and wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Joshua Rainer, host of Rainer Radio, joins Lou to talk about his past lives as an Instagram fitness influencer, Caveman Coffee mascot, and farmer, plus raw milk, the political divide over food, and why the butthole never lies.
We also get into Gym Ratts and his ESPN show, going from meathead lifting to CrossFit and strongman, arguing about school lunches, seed oils, why restaurant food doesn't taste good anymore, an 8,000-calorie carnivore binge, working as a ranch butcher, McDonald's beef tallow, DK Metcalf's diet, Paul Saladino and Ray Peat, the Kempner rice diet, and whether you're getting enough sugar.